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Published February 28th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran

Create your own SSL Ceritifcates Part 2

ONLamp finisheds off the creating your own SSL certificates article I linked to earlier, with an explanation of Distributing Your CA to Client Browsers.

In order for your client browsers to trust your new Certificate Authority, they must be configured to accept your CA’s public key. There are two possible formats that browsers will accept for new certificate authority certs: pem and der. You can generate a der from your existing pem with a single OpenSSL command:

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