openssl Generate a certificate
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:04 amA RSA key can be used both for encryption and for signing.
Generating a key for the RSA algorithm is quite easy, all you have to
do is the following:
http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/keys.txt
Creating a certificate request
http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/certificates.txt
Creating a self-signed test certificate
Generating a key for the RSA algorithm is quite easy, all you have to
do is the following:
http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/keys.txt
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openssl genrsa -out privkey.pem 2048
Creating a certificate request
http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/certificates.txt
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openssl req -new -key privkey.pem -out cert.csr
Creating a self-signed test certificate
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openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 1095