Creating self-signed SSL certificate

• 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.

-----

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.