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eskil / m2crypto-certificates.py
Created April 8, 2012 17:07
Example of generating CA certs and CA signed certs using python m2crypto.
"""
Tools for creating a CA cert and signed server certs.
Divined from http://svn.osafoundation.org/m2crypto/trunk/tests/test_x509.py
The mk_temporary_xxx calls return a NamedTemporaryFile with certs.
Usage ;
# Create a temporary CA cert and it's private key
cacert, cakey = mk_temporary_cacert()