Instruction for extracting Public Certificate in txt format
Customer certificate
Corporate customers who want to use Nordea Premium API products Instant
Reporting and Corporate Payout to access their own data/services must provide
a self-signed certificate. The certificate should be provided during technical client
application onboarding before the service can be activated into Production.
Issuer of certificate
There are several providers on the market that can provide trusted certificates,
but you need to pay for that.
Nordea Premium API product for corporate customers can also be used with a Self-signed certificate. The Self Signed certificate can be generated using tools, like OpenSSL, to generate your own certificate. The Certificate that you should submit to Nordea Premium API product onboarding must adhere to the requirements:
• The format of the certificate should be X509
• The only allowed algorithm is rsa-sha256
• The key size for the used RSA key pair must be at least 2048 bit
• Validity 2-3 Years
Extract and provide the Public Certificate to Nordea
The x509 Public certificate needs to be provided in a text format to Nordea as the
blue marked sample shown below:
Sample reference:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIIBTCCBb2gAwIBAgIQMd4iAonxWjsA7z/KpAJ3OTA9BgkqhkiG9w0BAQowMKAN
MAsGCWCGSAFlAwQCA6EaMBgGCSqGSIb3DQEBCDALBglghkgBZQMEAgOiAwIBQDBg
MQswCQYDVQQGEwJERTEVMBMGA1UEChMMRC1UcnVzdCBHbWJIMSEwHwYDVQQDEx
hE
.
.
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dPm7HsUynvIBSgHfT+XRTnYYHllvnh8/i8tBDCOBKor46wWj8EGsR4tiUGXNg8n8
rKTyIVAbL47/+SCxaVgS8ayctvBeN2CN8IJ0Lhjk/ts2g9AblFnrOMA=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
Extract a copy of Public Certificate (pictures below)
a. Open your Notepad application. (Pic 1)
b. Select file open…. (Pic 2)
c. Change to all files (Pic 3)
d. Locate certificate.cer file - Open (Pic 3)
e. Mark and copy the text in one text string into an email as body text (leave out the lines “-----BEGIN----" and the “---END----")
Provide the Public Certificate to Nordea
Send an email (with the Registration form for technical onboard as an attachment) to Nordea and provide the Public certificate in one text string delivered in the same email as body text.
Deliver your email to your Nordea Sales responsible contact.
If you have any questions about certificates, recipient of email or other service, reach out to:
Nordea Open Banking contact form
Sample pictures - How to copy of the Public Certificate into text format
Picture 1 – Open Notepad.
Picture 2 – Select File – Open….
Picture 3 – Change to “All Files”, locate the certificate file and click Open.
Picture 4 – Mark and Copy the text string. Leave out the lines:
“-----BEGIN----" and the “---END----"
(Certificate in sample Picture is shortened)
Picture 5 – Paste the text into the email and send it with the registration form to your Nordea Sales contact.