5.2 Acquiring certificates

To use SSL communication that uses RSA encryption and elliptic curve cryptography, you need to prepare a private key and a certificate issued by the Certification Authority (CA) according to the encryption type you use.

Organization of this section

• 5.2.1 Acquiring a certificate

• 5.2.2 Creating a private key for the Web server

• 5.2.3 Converting the Web server private key format (openssl.bat pkcs8 command or openssl.sh pkcs8 command) (when using elliptic curve cryptography)

• 5.2.4 Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) (openssl.bat req or openssl.sh req command)

• 5.2.5 Displaying the contents of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) (openssl.bat req or openssl.sh req command)

• 5.2.6 Displaying certificate contents (openssl.bat x509 or openssl.sh x509 command)

• 5.2.7 Converting the certificate format (openssl.bat x509 or openssl.sh x509 command)

• 5.2.8 Creating a hash link (in UNIX) (openssl.sh x509 command)

• 5.2.9 Usage examples of the openssl.bat and openssl.sh commands

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