How to create an X.509 Public / Private Keypair — with no prompting

David Janes
Dec 31, 2020

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You’ll end up with two files “private.key.pem” and “public.cer.pem”. If you’re just playing around — which likely you are — the “subj” is likely fine as it is for testing purposes.

We’ll do something interesting with these today. Happy New Year!

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David Janes
David Janes

Written by David Janes

Entrepreneur. Technologist. Mercenary Programmer.

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