You might check out cacert.org, a free certificate authority that
might serve your needs, or you might find this Howto informative:

http://sial.org/howto/openssl/ca/

Cheers,

Brandon

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Jonathan Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Recently, I've had the need to create about 10 self signed
> certificates for various things.  During all of this, I decided it
> might be worth while to just setup a CA and sign certs myself, etc.
> That way, at least all these machines have some kind of manageability
> to them.  Also, it allows me to track what machines have certs, etc.
> Hopefully, doing this will also allow me to use certs in more ways
> that I thought of before ( thinking: PKI in my wireless networks,
> easier configurations of OpenVPN, and such).
>
> In the past, I've used things like TinyCA and the CA.pl scripts to
> create simple things for projects in school and the like.  Nothing
> ever serious.  So, that's my question.  Any suggestions on a tool to
> help manage this (or is TinyCA good enough)?  Anyone else have
> experience with this?
>
>
> To take this further, I have an old laptop that I was going to be
> donating to the project, to keep my CA offline at all times.  (at
> least, until i get to send out certs... not sure about this yet).
>
> That's my thoughts, and I welcome your thoughts on this...
>
> -jon
>
> >
>



-- 
Brandon D. Valentine
http://www.brandonvalentine.com

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