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OpenSSL – Self Signed Certificates / Becoming a Root CA

February 10th, 2015 No comments

Following on from the brief personal aide-memoir: OpenSSL – Generate CSR and Test x509 Certificate, this post contains the recipe to generate a self-signed certificate and use this as a CA, to sign other certificates. This is because the term “Self signed certificate” is really incorrect, the proper phrase ought to be “Being your own Certificate Authority”, (or CA)
– You have the “root key”
– And you can “sign” other certificates
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