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Created December 19, 2012 10:43
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Quick! create a self-signed SSL certificate in Ubuntu
#http://qugstart.com/blog/linux/quickest-way-to-create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-in-ubuntu/
#We will create the certificate in the “/etc/ssl/self-signed” directory
# Become root first !
mkdir /etc/ssl/self-signed && cd /etc/ssl/self-signed
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.insecure
mv server.key server.key.secure && mv server.key.insecure server.key
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
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