Creating Self-Signed SSL Certificates

SSL Certificates are a fundamental part of Transport Layer Security. SSL Certs are used as a means for authentication, by this I mean that a cert is mapped to a particular web site or web server and helps ensure that you are at the right place on the web. To host a secure web site requests that you get the cert signed by a Certificate Authority like VeriSign, GeoTrust or some other CA, but if you are only interested in creating SSL Certs for the purpose of a secure connection then self-signed certs would be the best way to go….(plus they are free).

(I put this post here because every time my certs expire I have to crawl the web to find the write set of command to run to get the SSL Cert again, it took me quite awhile to find them last time.. So hopefully this post will help someone somewhere)

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