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Creating SSL Keys and Certificates

Creating SSL keys and Certificates. You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.

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Creating SSL Keys and Certificates

Creating SSL keys and Certificates. You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.

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Taimoor Khan
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Creating SSL keys and Certificates.

KEYS:
taikhan@ubuntu:~/ssl$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out keys/ca.key 1024

Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus

....++++++

.++++++

e is 65537 (0x10001)

Enter pass phrase for keys/ca.key:

Verifying - Enter pass phrase for keys/ca.key:

CERTIFICATES:
taikhan@ubuntu:~/ssl$ openssl req -new -x509 -days 1001 -key keys/ca.key -out
certs/ca.cer
Enter pass phrase for keys/ca.key:

You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated

into your certificate request.

What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.

There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank

For some fields there will be a default value,

If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.

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Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:CA

State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:ON

Locality Name (eg, city) []:Toronto

Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:RIM


Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:RIM

Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:RIM

Email Address []:[email protected]

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