Archive for April, 2010

Create an Apache Self-signed Certificate without a PassPhrase

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

This is annoying to start the apache webserver with SSL. After hours of research, I found the following procedures can create a certificate that does not require to type passphrase.

It could be less secured – so use it at your own risk!!

This is how we can generate a DSA Certificate without a passphrase.

openssl dsaparam 1024 -out dsaparams
openssl gendsa -out ca.key dsaparams
openssl req -new -key ca.key -out ca.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in ca.csr -signkey ca.key -out ca.crt