Attention: this is the key used to sign the certificate requests, anyone holding this can sign certificates on your behalf. So keep it in a safe place!
openssl genrsa -des3 -out rootCA.key 4096
cmanda
/ self-signed-certificate-with-custom-ca.md
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November 20, 2019 02:15
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Self Signed Certificate with Custom Root CA
cmanda
/ how-to-generate-and-use-private-keys-with-openssl-tool.md
Created
October 9, 2019 06:13
— forked from briansmith/how-to-generate-and-use-private-keys-with-openssl-tool.md
How to generate & use private keys using the OpenSSL command line tool
These commands generate and use private keys in unencrypted binary (not Base64 “PEM”) PKCS#8 format. The PKCS#8 format is used here because it is the most interoperable format when dealing with software that isn't based on OpenSSL.
OpenSSL has a variety of commands that can be used to operate on private
key files, some of which are specific to RSA (e.g. openssl rsa and
openssl genrsa) or which have other limitations. Here we always use