Re: [HACKERS] SSL Connections

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> To create a quick self-signed certificate, use the CA.pl script
> included in OpenSSL:
> 
> CA.pl -newcert

Or you can do it manually:

openssl req -new -text -out cert.req (you will have to enter a password)
mv privkey.pem cert.pem.pw
openssl rsa -in cert.pem.pw -out cert.pem  (this removes the password)
openssl req -x509 -in cert.req -text -key cert.pem -out cert.cert

Matthew.