From efd0f5a3c58b62344c6981c4076eb23873ad57e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Hodgson <matthew@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 18:49:44 +0100
Subject: tip for generating tls_fingerprints

---
 synapse/config/tls.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'synapse/config/tls.py')

diff --git a/synapse/config/tls.py b/synapse/config/tls.py
index 247f18f454..4748f71c2f 100644
--- a/synapse/config/tls.py
+++ b/synapse/config/tls.py
@@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ class TlsConfig(Config):
         # key. It may be necessary to publish the fingerprints of a new
         # certificate and wait until the "valid_until_ts" of the previous key
         # responses have passed before deploying it.
+        #
+        # You can calculate a fingerprint from a given TLS listener via:
+        # openssl s_client -connect $host:$port < /dev/null 2> /dev/null |
+        #   openssl x509 -outform DER | openssl sha256 -binary | base64 | tr -d '='
+        # or by checking matrix.org/federationtester/api/report?server_name=$host
+        #
         tls_fingerprints: []
         # tls_fingerprints: [{"sha256": "<base64_encoded_sha256_fingerprint>"}]
         """ % locals()
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