PKI Certificate Management

These instructions shows how to do basic certificate management tasks using standard tools

When to use this information:

Follow these guides for test and when certificate request procedures are not present in your company.

Contents

OpenSSL guides:

• Create a Certificate Authority with OpenSSL
• Create a private key and a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) (simplified)
• Create a Certificate Authority (simplified)
• Create a certificate using a Certificate Authority

Keytool guides:

• [Keytool] Create a javax.net.ssl.keyStore
• [Keytool] Export a javax.net.ssl.keyStore to PKCS12 file - backup proprietary keystore to a standard file format.

Other guides:

• Extracting certificate chain certificates from Client certificate using Microsoft Windows