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Topic 1: Diagnose certificate-based authentication
Topic 2: Differences between cockroach and psql clients for client verification of server certificates
Topic 3: Capture the node and the CA certificate expiration programmatically
Topic 4: Check the client certificate expiration

Topic 1: Diagnose Certificate-Based Authentication

I was using CockroachDB Serverless with a product called PolyScale.ai for an article I was writing and I ran into a strange issue with certificate-based AuthN. When you provision the instance of their service, it provides a client connection string.

I used the connection string to connect: