Thursday, September 18, 2003
Generating OpenSSL keys, certs and CSRs by hand
I keep having to look this up so I'm just going to write it down.
Generate a key (1024 bit):
openssl genrsa -des3 -out privkey.pem 1024
Generate Self Signed cert:
openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 1095
Generate a key (1024 bit):
openssl genrsa -des3 -out privkey.pem 1024
Generate Self Signed cert:
openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 1095