Certification Authority
From Support
A Certification Authority(CA) is an entity that issues SSL Certificates. Netsoc runs a CA so that you only have to trust one cert to access our various encrypted services. These include phpMyAdmin and IMAPS.
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Trusting the Netsoc CA
- Goto http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/ssl/
- Click on cacert.crt
- In the dialog box that comes up, tell your browser to trust the cert
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Creating a Cert
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To create a new cert for service:
cd /etc/NetsocCA openssl req -new -nodes -out service.pem -keyout service.pem -days 730 -newkey rsa:2048 openssl ca -days 730 -out service.crt -infiles service.pem openssl rsa < service.pem > service.key #RSA private key openssl rsa < service.pem -pubout > service.pub #RSA public key mv service.pem private #Keep a copy
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