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General OpenSSL Commands- commands show how to create CSRs, certificates and private keys

Tired Tern answered on November 3, 2022 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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General OpenSSL Commands- commands show how to create CSRs, certificates and private keys

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#The following commands show how to create CSRs, certificates and private keys, in addition to a few other tasks using OpenSSL.

#Generate a new private key and CSR (Unix)
openssl req -utf8 -nodes -sha256 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout server.key -out server.csr
openssl req -out CSR.csr -pubkey -new -keyout privateKey.key
#Generate a new private key and CSR (Windows)
openssl req -out CSR.csr -pubkey -new -keyout privateKey.key -config .shareopenssl.cmf
#Generate a CSR for an existing private key
openssl req -out CSR.csr -key privateKey.key -new
#Generate a CSR based on an existing certificate
openssl x509 -x509toreq -in MYCRT.crt -out CSR.csr -signkey privateKey.key
#Generate a self-signed certificate
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout privateKey.key -out certificate.crt
#Remove a password from a private key
openssl rsa -in privateKey.pem -out newPrivateKey.pem

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