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habemus-papadum / gist:3b0ed878881b92c71f217492ec1caa1e
Created April 10, 2018 15:02 — forked from mtigas/gist:952344
Mini tutorial for configuring client-side SSL certificates.

Client-side SSL

For excessively paranoid client authentication.

Using self-signed certificate.

Create a Certificate Authority root (which represents this server)

Organization & Common Name: Some human identifier for this server CA.

openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt