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This guide describes how to setup your Chromebook for local web development. This will help you configure TLS for a server running in Linux on ChromeOS and accessed through the Chrome web browser.

Background

It's important to note a couple things about how Linux on ChromeOS works. Some of this information is hard to come across, so the details are summarized here.

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Create CA

C=US
CN=Example-Root-CA
SUBJ="/C=$C/CN=$CN"

openssl req -x509 -nodes -new -sha256 -days 1024 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ca.key -out ca.crt -subj "$SUBJ"