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Created July 11, 2015 08:16
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create a self-signed SSL certificate
# Become root first !
$ mkdir /etc/ssl/self-signed && cd /etc/ssl/self-signed
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
$ openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.insecure
$ mv server.key server.key.secure && mv server.key.insecure server.key
$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
$ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
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