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Foil 113 Generating Certificates on Unix-1

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen
1 "ssleay" is a public domain tool to produce certificates and keys on NPAC systems.
2 "ssleay" is installed in the following directory; /usr/npac/lib/ssl/bin
3 ssleay program has useful utilities related to cryptography
4 To generate new certificate and key files, type the following
5 ssleay req -new -x509 -nodes -out myCertificate.pem -keyout myPrivateKey.pem
6 and follow the instructions produced by the program.
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8 A sample session is on following foil:
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