Hi Charly,

I've dealt with similar stuff in the past - is it possible for you to extract a certificate from the token and share that here?  that will give some insight into the problem.

Regards,

JJK


On 27/11/2025 11:34, Carsten Mietzsch via Openvpn-users wrote:

Hi,

We use Athena IDProtect tokens on the client side for pkcs#11 authentication. While the client does not display any errors during the handshake via pkcs, we receive a rejection on the server side:

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281152+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 Sent fatal SSL alert: decrypt error

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281207+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 OpenSSL: error:02000068:rsa routines::bad signature::../crypto/rsa/rsa_pss.c:143:ossl_rsa_verify_PKCS1_PSS_mgf1

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281262+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 OpenSSL: error:1C880004:Provider routines::RSA lib::../providers/implementations/signature/rsa_sig.c:1084:rsa_verify_directly

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281311+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 OpenSSL: error:0A00007B:SSL routines::bad signature::../ssl/statem/statem_lib.c:582:tls_process_cert_verify

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281353+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 TLS_ERROR: BIO read tls_read_plaintext error

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281402+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 TLS Error: TLS object -> incoming plaintext read error

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281719+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281766+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 PID packet_id_free

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281806+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 PKCS#11: __pkcs11h_openssl_ex_data_free entered - parent=0x575b0f8c3cc0, ptr=(nil), ad=0x575b0f8c3d50, idx=1, argl=0, argp=0x72efb3a80ac3

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281839+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 PID packet_id_free

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281879+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 PID packet_id_free

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281922+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 TLS: tls_session_init: entry

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281956+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 PID packet_id_init seq_backtrack=64 time_backtrack=15

2025-11-27T08:31:26.281995+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 PID packet_id_init seq_backtrack=64 time_backtrack=15

2025-11-27T08:31:26.282023+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 TLS: tls_session_init: new session object, sid=a9758fd7 30b00b25

2025-11-27T08:31:26.282068+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 TLS: tls_multi_process: i=2 state=S_UNDEF, mysid=00000000 00000000, stored-sid=00000000 00000000, stored-ip=[AF_UNSPEC]

2025-11-27T08:31:26.282113+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 Fatal TLS error (check_tls_errors_co), restarting

2025-11-27T08:31:26.282153+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: 192.168.51.159:54312 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, client-instance restarting

2025-11-27T08:31:26.282196+00:00 sgw02 ovpn-server[87519]: MULTI: multi_close_instance called

ovpn is v2.6 and ossl has v3.5.4. We have already tried on both sides to enforce

tls-cert-profile legacy

and tls 1.2.

Forcing ossl to legacy also did not help.

I suspect that the stick simply does not support pss, but we are also unable to get the server to accept the old procedure. The signature algorithm is sha256RSA.

Unfortunately, over 1000 tokens are already in the field and a worldwide replacement is difficult.

Has anyone had any experience with this or have any ideas about what we should check or try?

Kind regards,

Charly



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