A self signed certificate is signed with its own private key instead of the private key of a higher or publicly trusted certificate authority (CA).
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Re-create SSL cert from key
So I have my own CA for self-signing SSL certs, but I lost my root certificate. I have a few dependent certs that list the subject info of my root cert. I have my CA's private key and the password to unlock it. Given how public-key crypto works, it…

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makecert.exe incorrectly reports duplicate certificates when using -is flag
I created a self-signed certificate that I then loaded into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities folder. This certificate acts as a trusted root for websites on my workstation. I am using makecert.exe to create certificates issued from that…

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Squid 3.5.4: ssl bump: error - Error negotiating SSL connection on FD 10: Success (0)
I am trying to install squid 3.5.4 (on docker, running debian 8) and run it in ssl-bump mode.
Compilation:
./configure --prefix=/opt/squid --srcdir=. --disable-maintainer-mode \
--disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules…

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Adding Chained CA certificate on /etc/ssl/certinfo.ldif file
I have been created following files for my LDAP server using certtool.
1.root.pem
2.ldap_crt.pem
3.ldap_key.pem
Above created files has been configured in the /etc/ssl/certinfo.ldif file like mentioned below.
olcTLSCACertificateFile:…

ram ajay
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Securing Apache Solr on an Apache TLS / SSL server
I have a SSL-only website hosted on a CentOS 7, Apache httpd based server. SSL certification is via a Let's Encrypt certificate. The domain has a HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) policy.
I am also running Apache Solr (indexing; search) as a…

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How to handle offline LAN self-signed SSL certificates?
I want to provide a git repo with tutorials and examples of WebRTC applications, for people who are just starting to learn and don't have any grasp at all on the technology involved. These tutorials shouldn't need to change once the code is written:…

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Kubernetes: using an intermediate CA which certificate is signed by a self-signed root CA certificate
Does anyone use own certificate chains for Kubernetes clusters?
There's an issue with such kind of setup, and I would be grateful for any ideas on how to solve it.
Let's assume we have a Root CA which certificate is self-signed. Also we have an…

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Squid! FATAL: No valid signing certificate configured for HTTPS_port
I've been struggling with Squid 4.13 on Ubuntu 20.04 for about a week now.
My latest (and hopefully last) problem is this:
FATAL: No valid signing certificate configured for HTTPS_port
and this is my line that says so:
https_port 0.0.0.0:3128…

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CA with intermediate certificate for vault
I want to setup Private CA for internal services using Vault (HashiCorp). I am generating Root CA & Intermediate CA certificate outside of Vault. Vault will be generating short-lived (30 days) certificate based on request.
I followed this guid…

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Azure VMSS automatic instance repair with LB probe and self signed certificate
I have 2 VMSS in azure with a internal LB infront of them. The LB has a 443 rule, and a probe to execute an https request with a request path pointing to healthcheck endpoint of the deployed application on the scalesets. All standard stuff, but the…

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Migrating Root Certificate Authority
I got thrown into the middle of a CA migration project. My co-workers are migrating a Root Certificate Authority off a 2008 R2 server and onto a new 2019 server. They have both servers running at the same time with Active Directory Certificate…

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OpenSSL invalid revocation date / update CRL?
I have an index.txt file where I changed the value of a certificate - whose certificate file I do not have - from V to R to revoke it.
The index.txt looks as follows exemplarily:
V 220303095424Z 123456 unknown /bla
R 220303104529Z …

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IIS-created self signed certificates (2 servers, same domain)
I have 2 web servers in Azure (prod and test).
I have created (temporarily) a self signed certificate (using IIS) on both.
One certificate works fine, but the other is causing downloads to fail because of "certificate errors".
One server is for…

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How can I generate a self signed certificate that will not fire a SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN?
I need to generate a self signed certificate for my application and I want to be able to make it valid if a self generated root certificate have been added to the web browser manually.
The problem is that my application will be accessed by any IP…

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Self-Signed Certificate working in OS X but not Windows
Im trying to create a self-signed certificate to use a HTTPS connection to access my internal site (jira.intranet.com). I have successfully followed this article…

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