# Certificate details of Curator

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certificate-details-of-curator/223731>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** curator\
**Created:** [March 16, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certificate-details-of-curator/223731 "2020-03-16T10:20:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kasim123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kasim123/32/58684_2.png) [@kasim123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kasim123)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certificate-details-of-curator/223731/1 "2020-03-16T10:20:57Z")

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I have configured ELK stack with X-pack enabled. Now I am trying to configured elasticsearch curator. Which certificates should I define for SSL communication between Curator and ElasticSearch. I have only certificates which were generated (PKC#12) format certificates using elasticsearch-certutil.

````auto
 use_ssl: False
  certificate:
  client_cert:
  client_key:
  ssl_no_validate: False

```
````

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**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certificate-details-of-curator/223731/2 "2020-03-17T18:42:13Z")

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Curator doesn't currently enable the use of PKC packaged certificates. You must extract them into PEM format with both a public and private key.

I recommend reading [the certificate documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/5.8/configfile.html#certificate), which is followed by instructions for `client_cert` and `client_key`.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/certificate-details-of-curator/223731/3 "2020-04-14T18:42:22Z")

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