- Generate a private key
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
You have to provide pass phrase which incorporated the private key
- Generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
Enter pass phrase for server.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]:SL
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Western
Locality Name (eg, city) []:CMB
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:WSO2
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:BRS
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:wso2.brs.com
Email Address []:milindap@wso2.com
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
For the Common Name (CN), you have to provide fully qualified domain name of the server. In above example the expected server url in https://wso2.brs.com/, hence proved the wso2.brs.com as the CN.
- Create self-signed certificate
$ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
Signature ok
subject=/C=SL/ST=Western/L=CMB/O=WSO2/OU=BRS/CN=wso2.brs.com/emailAddress=milindap@wso2.com
Getting Private key
Enter pass phrase for server.key:
This will create server.crt certificate.
