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
# Define where to store the generated certs and metadata. | |
DIR="$(pwd)/tls" | |
# Optional: Ensure the target directory exists and is empty. | |
rm -rf "${DIR}" | |
mkdir -p "${DIR}" | |
# Create the openssl configuration file. This is used for both generating | |
# the certificate as well as for specifying the extensions. It aims in favor | |
# of automation, so the DN is encoding and not prompted. |