Re: newbie: help to create ssl connection.

[Justin Williams]

Thawte.com, actually, has a great step-by-step on this one  That's where the following comes from: 1- make sure you know the full domain name (https://www.domain.com) 2- pick 5 random files that are of moderate size (I use about a 5K file).  Thawte refers to these files as file1:file2:file3... 3- generate the key as follows: openssl genrsa -des3 -rand file1:file2:file3:file4:file5 -out www.domain.com.key (you can leave out the -des3, if you are confident and secure about your server) 4- generate the CSR from the key: openssl -req -new -key www.domain.com.key -out www.domain.com.csr (common name, when you are prompted, is not YOUR name, but the complete and entire domain name) 5- generate a temporary, self-signed CRT from the CSR: openssl x509 -req -days 30 -in www.domain.com.csr -signkey www.domain.com.key -out www.domain.com.crt   You will then send the CSR to the CA of your choice.  Whenthey send you the CRT back, replace your temporary CRT with the real one. ----- Original Message ----- From: kulkarni veena To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:32 PM Subject: newbie: help to create ssl connection. Hi, I'm new to all this ssl thing and I wanted to create a ssl connection for online store using modssl. Could you please advice how do i get started? Thanks in advance. Veena Kulkarni Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now