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## self-signed-certificate-with-custom-ca.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                Self Signed Certificate with Custom Root CA
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Create Root CA (Done once)

Create Root Key

Attention: this is the key used to sign the certificate requests, anyone holding this can sign certificates on your behalf. So keep it in a safe place!
openssl genrsa -des3 -out rootCA.key 4096