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"Salzburg": The TLS key that still matches

Scenario: "Salzburg": The TLS key that still matches

Level: Medium

Type: Fix

Tags: nginx   ssl  

Access: Email

Description: The Salzburg Festival box-office site should be served over HTTPS on port :443. The certificate expired, and nginx will not start.

We still have the public key at /home/admin/festival.pub. A key-archive cleanup left many leftover private keys under /opt/festival/keys. Find the private key that matches that public key and copy it to /home/admin/festival.key. Issue a new certificate for the same host using that same key (do not generate a new key pair) and get the site serving HTTPS again.

There is a short handover note in /home/admin/HANDOVER.txt.

Root (sudo) Access: True

Test: /home/admin/festival.key and /home/admin/festival.pub are a matching key pair.

curl -k https://127.0.0.1/ returns the box-office page.

The certificate presented on :443 is not expired, its subject is the original festival host, and it was issued with the same key as /home/admin/festival.pub.

The "Check My Solution" button runs the script /home/admin/agent/check.sh, which you can see and execute.

Time to Solve: 20 minutes.

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Updated: 2026-09-27 14:36 UTC – c78fe89