In the HOWTO on making certificates, it suggests we should
check out the file called "ca.txt" to learn more about making
a CA:
4. Creating a self-signed test certificate
If you don't want to deal with another certificate
authority, or just want to create a test certificate for
yourself. This is similar to creating a certificate
request, but creates a certificate instead of a certificate
request. This is NOT the recommended way to create a CA
certificate, see ca.txt.
openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 1095
-- http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/certificates.txt
There is no such file, nor has there been one for a long time.
I've seen emails on this topic dating back as far as 2001. If
the file can't be restored, can the reference be removed?
I'd like to know the "recommended" way but net tutorials tend
to be about the easy way.
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_jsn
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