Openssl.conf Walkthru. The man page for openssl.conf covers syntax, and in some cases specifics. But most options are documented in in the man pages of the subcommands they relate to, and its hard to get a full picture of how the config file works.
To see the contents of a certificate (for example, to check the range of dates over which a certificate is valid), invoke openssl like this: openssl x509 -text -in ca.pem openssl x509 -text -in server-cert.pem openssl x509 -text -in client-cert.pem. Now you have a set of files that can be used as follows: Certificate Management and Generation with OpenSSL Aug 14, 2016 Mobilefish.com - A tutorial about OpenSSL. CA sign your
OCSP certificate database: Based on MicroCA application database (It provides “unknown” answer about certificates, that are not found in the database but issued by the CA.), OpenSSL index.txt database file, Integration to other CA databases (based on OpenLDAP DB) (optional), It supports any CA application, that based on action triggered CRL
A file demoCA/serial would be created containing for example, 01 and the empty index file demoCA/index.txt. Sign a certificate request: openssl ca -in req.pem -out newcert.pem Sign a certificate request using CA extensions: openssl ca -in req.pem -extensions v3_ca -out newcert.pem Generate a CRL openssl ca -gencrl -out crl.pem MySQL :: MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual :: 6.3.3.2 Creating
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x509 - OpenSSL as a CA without touching the certs/crl I think you might get better responses if you specified your minimum requirements, i.e. would you be satisfied with any solution that given a CA certificate and key can sign a client certificate or does it have to use openssl ca? (Not that I know any better answer offhand) – user786653 Oct 18 '11 at 15:41