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
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Self Signed Certificate with Custom Root CA
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| echo "Generating an SSL private key to sign your certificate..." | |
| openssl genrsa -des3 -out myssl.key 1024 | |
| echo "Generating a Certificate Signing Request..." | |
| openssl req -new -key myssl.key -out myssl.csr | |
| echo "Removing passphrase from key (for nginx)..." | |
| cp myssl.key myssl.key.org | |
| openssl rsa -in myssl.key.org -out myssl.key |