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Create an SSL CA Certificate
Andrew — 3 June, 2010 - 02:07
Here is how you can go about making yourself a SSL CA certificate. Why would you want to do that? Well, so you can be your own CA! Once you create a SSL CA certificate of your own, you can then create server and client certificates which you can use for your servers and distribute the CA certificate to clients for validating your service. This can create a greater "trust" between the client and server. Better yet, you can even make client certificates which you can then use for the server to validate clients! Then you can do some fancy things like revoke client certs (like the one you gave to your now ex-girlfriend to access your VPN server) But we can get into that later (Sorry, I cannot help you with any issues you might have with your ex-girlfriend!).
