openssl req

OpenSSL command to manage PKCS#10 Certificate Signing Requests.

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• Generate a certificate signing request to be sent to a certificate authority:

openssl req -new -sha256 -key {filename.key} -out {filename.csr}

• Generate a self-signed certificate and a corresponding key-pair, storing both in a file:

openssl req -new -x509 -newkey {rsa}:{4096} -keyout {filename.key} -out {filename.cert} -subj "{/C=XX/CN=foobar}" -days {365}

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