OpenSSL: How to generate a key and certificate request

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If you’re wanting to start up a web server or perhaps just want to add SSL capabilities to a pre-existing website, this quick tutorial may be useful to you. In a Unix environment, generating a key and certificate request or .key and .csr with OpenSSL is actually quite simple and stress-free. OpenSSL is a cryptographic … Read more