- December 29, 2010
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James Skemp
A raw dump of information on how to create a certificate authority and etcetera.
Step 1: Basic folder and file structure creation Directories: certs, keys, requests
Files: database.txt (empty), serial.txt (01, then new line), openssl.cnf (based on OpenSSL file)
Step 2: Create key "c:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin\openssl.exe" genrsa -des3 -out keys/_ca.key 2048
Step 3: Create certificate authority certificate "c:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin\openssl.exe" req -config openssl.cnf -new -x509 -days 365 -key keys/_ca.
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