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How to Create Self-Signed SSL Certificates (Part 2)
71 year ago
In the first part of this series I showed how to create a Root Certificate that you can use to sign your own certificates and deploy to your users to allow you to quickly and cheaply secure internal websites or applications that use SSL without having to pay for the often costly commercial SSL certificates.
In this part I will show how to generate a Certificate Signing Request and then use your new Root Certificate to create a Self-Signed SSL certificate that you can then install into your webserver.
Once again I will be using Cygwin and OpenSSL to generate the certificates so if you haven’t already got it installed check out my Cygwin Install Guide.
How to Install Cygwin
11 year ago
Cygwin is an awesome tool that allows you to access a Linux-like environment from within Windows, you get access to almost all the same binaries as a normal Linux install but without having to run a full-fledged Linux distribution, this can be very handy for when you either just want to learn one particular tool or make use of one particular program.
The best thing is that Cygwin is also really easy to install and use so even if you are a total Linux newbie there is no excuse not to give it a go.
Installing Cygwin is as simple as this:
