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I found this excellent article on how to create a SSL Certificate of Authority and gnerating a SSL Cerificate

Creating an SSL Certificate of Authority
http://www.freebsdmadeeasy.com/tutorials/freebsd/create-a-ca-with-openssl.php

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#!/bin/sh
##############################################
# CA Creator
# http://www.freebsdmadeeasy.com/
#
# This Script creates a certificate of authority
# using OpenSSL. It was written and tested on
# FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE  Use at your own risk
#
#
##############################################


echo "Setting up the directories"
mkdir ~/sslCA
echo "sslCA"
mkdir ~/sslCA/certs
echo "sslCA/certs"
mkdir ~/sslCA/private
echo "sslCA/private"
mkdir ~/sslCA/newcerts
echo "sslCA/newcerts"

cd ~/sslCA
echo 1000 > serial
touch index.txt

echo "Setting the permission to 700 on sslCA"
chmod -R 700 ~/sslCA

echo "Creating the CA"
echo "Use a strong password and keep it safe!"
openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -extensions v3_ca -keyout private/cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

more ~/sslCA/cacert.pem
more ~/sslCA/private/cakey.pem

echo "sslCA/cacert.pem"
echo "sslCA/private/cakey.pem"

echo "All Done!"




Generating an SSL certificate
http://www.freebsdmadeeasy.com/tutorials/web-server/apache-ssl-certs.php