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Self-Signed SSL Certificates
There are many ways to create SSL certificates; however, we have found the OpenSSL toolkit to be the easiest and most comprehensive. As the name suggests, OpenSSL is an open source toolkit for SSL/TLS; see the official website for details.
You will need to download and install the OpenSSL product that suits your environment. For the purposes of this document, OpenSSL was installed into C:\OpenSSL-Win64. If your OpenSSL is installed into a different directory then these steps will have to be adjusted to suit.
- Create a new command/batch file in C:\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\
- Open this file and paste these details into it
set SRVNAME=localhost
openssl genrsa -out %SRVNAME%.key 2048
openssl req -new -x509 -key %SRVNAME%.key -out %SRVNAME%.cert -days 3650 -subj /CN=%SRVNAME%
copy /b %SRVNAME%.cert+%SRVNAME%.key server.pem