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SSL Certificates

Creating a self-signed certificate​

Outputted certificate prefix: testcert

This creates a self-signed certificate, valid for 365 days. Swap out the two instances of 365 for another time as required.

# Create certificate signing request (CSR)
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout testcert.key -out testcert.csr -days 365
# Create the self-signed certificate
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in testcert.csr -signkey testcert.key -sha256 -out testcert.crt
# Convert to PEM format
openssl x509 -in testcert.crt -out testcert.crt -outform PEM