Open Source certificate authority?

[David A. Bandel]

On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 13:39:01 -0700
begin  "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist at ekahuna.com> spewed forth:

> I'm looking for the simplest possible way to generate an X.509 
> certificate. (specifically, I have a piece of network hardware which 
> supports SSL, but which requires the user to import their own 
> certificate and I don't feel like paying for one.  Validation of the 
> certificate by a 'legit' CA is not an issue in this case)
> 
> There is a project called "openCA" but it seems somewhat complicated 
> and I can't find any RPMs out there.
> 
> So I was looking at this "tinyCA" thingy, but I can't tell if it has 
> everything I need to create a certificate.  Does anyone have 
> experience with this?  Can I create certificates with just this, perl-
> tk, and OpenSSL?
> 
> http://tinyca.sm-zone.net/

The latest tinyCA is _exactly_ what you need, and it's all graphical (Perl
w/ the Tk Perl module -- and a few others).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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