OpenSSL Certificate Authority¶

This guide demonstrates how to act as your own certificate authority (CA) using the OpenSSL command-line tools. This is useful in a number of situations, such as issuing server certificates to secure an intranet website, or for issuing certificates to clients to allow them to authenticate to a server.

• Introduction
• Create the root pair
• Create the intermediate pair
• Sign server and client certificates
• Certificate revocation lists
• Online Certificate Status Protocol
• Appendix

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