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		JackGreyhat on Sept 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 20... Easy-rsa to the rescue. Been using it for a while, works great and makes life easier :) Link: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa Summary from that page: easy-rsa is a CLI utility to build and manage a PKI CA. In laymen's terms, this means to create a root certificate authority, and request and sign certificates, including intermediate CAs and certificate revocation lists (CRL).

suckitsam on Sept 17, 2023 [–]

It's funny how I go from "YEAH! CA's SHOULD be a quick one-liner!" to "Should laymen be generating Root CAs?" inside of like 10 seconds of scrolling.

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