From the course: SSL/TLS for Beginners: Securing Network Communications
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Configure a Linux OpenSSL PKI environment - Active Directory Tutorial
From the course: SSL/TLS for Beginners: Securing Network Communications
Configure a Linux OpenSSL PKI environment
- [Instructor] OpenSSL is a free tool that allows us to create and manage certificates in a public key infrastructure hierarchy. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you've got OpenSSL installed, and I'm doing it here in Linux, so depending on your distribution of Linux will determine the exact command you'll issue to check that it exists. Here I'm going to run apt, install, OpenSSL, and here I can see that it tells me OpenSSl is already installed, so that's good. Now I can start working with the command. So here I'm using Kali Linux, but depending on your distribution, you might do this in a different manner. Now the first order of business when you want to create your own private root certificate authority, your own root CA is to first generate a private key for it, and I'm going to do that by typing openssl genrsa, generate an rsa key, and I'm going to tell it I want to use aes256 as an algorithm. That's the type of key, and then -out. I'm going to call it…
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