Howto: Make Your Own Cert With OpenSSL

Ever wanted to make your own public key certificate for digital signatures? There are many recipes and tools on the net, like this one. My howto uses OpenSSL, and gives you a cert with a nice chain to your root CA. First we generate a 4096-bit long RSA key for our root CA and store it in file ca.key:openssl genrsa -out ca.key 4096Generating RSA private key, 4096 bit long modulus.................