crypto-utilsFebruary 2005genkey1genkeygenerate SSL certificates and certificate requestsgenkeyhostnameDescriptiongenkey is an interactive command-line
tool which can be used to generate SSL certificates or Certificate
Signing Requests (CSR). Generated certificates are stored in the
directory /usr/share/ssl/certs/, and the
corresponding private key in
/usr/share/ssl/private/. genkey will prompt for the size of key
desired; whether or not to generate a CSR; whether or not an
encrypted private key is desired; the certificate subject DN
details.genkey generates random data for the
private key using the truerand library and also by prompting the
user for entry of random text.OptionsGenerate a Certificate Authority
keypair.Generate a Certificate Signing Request for
an existing private key, which can be submitted to a CA (for
example, for renewal).countWhen generating a self-signed certificate,
specify that the number of days for which the certificate is
valid be count rather than the default
value of 30.For test purposes only; omit the slow
process of generating random data.ExamplesThe following example will create a self-signed certificate
and private key for the hostname
www.example.com:
# genkey --days 120 www.example.com
Files/usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf