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Foil 83 Generating Certificates on Unix-1

From Basic Principles of Java and Internet Security CPS616 Web Technologies -- Spring 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
"ssleay" is a public domain tool to produce certificates and keys on NPAC systems.
"ssleay" is installed in the following directory; /usr/npac/lib/ssl/bin
ssleay program has useful utilities related to cryptography
To generate new certificate and key files, type the following
ssleay req -new -x509 -nodes -out myCertificate.pem -keyout myPrivateKey.pem
and follow the instructions produced by the program.
A sample session is on following foil:
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