[EnGarde] Creating SSL certificates HOWTO

From: Marcus Redivo <mredivo_at_nospam>
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 18:06:34 GMT
To: "Engarde-Users" <engarde-users@linuxsecurity.com>

Hello everyone,

A few months ago I was struggling with creating certificates for apache and stunnel. I got good help from Alexander Leschinsky and Ryan, which resolved my issues. In return, I said I would write up what I learned, because documentation on this topic is sparse.

Well, here it is: http://www.binarytool.com/docs/ssl-cert-HOWTO.html

With this, anyone should be able to create and manage certificates as their own root CA for basic purposes.

This is still a work in progress. I have run it by the OpenSSL users list for feedback to make sure there is nothing egregiously wrong with it, and incorporated some feedback I got.

I would welcome any comments, particularly in the area of restricting what purposes the certificates are valid for. I haven't stumbled onto the list of valid options yet. (I will attack the Certificate Revocation List issues myself in the near future.)

Cheers,
Marcus Redivo

The Binary Tool Foundry
http://www.binarytool.com
mailto:mredivo@binarytool.com

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