how do you create a certificate?

[Anonymous]

how do you create an X.509 certificate for VapourSec?

[Anonymous]

OK, so I am going to answer my own question …

I found this HOWTO on “Generating X.509 Certificates” which is located at:

http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x507.html

Beware, for some reason it says 507 in the URL, not 509.

Anyway, in OSX 10.3 the path to the OpenSSL library is

/System/Library/OpenSSL

and the CA.pl script meantion in the above HOWTO is at

/System/Library/OpenSSL/misc/CA.pl

However, before you can generate the certificate, you must first generate a private key. I’ll post again with instructions for that later on.

rgds
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