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Getting Started

Following is a very simplified view of the method is an implementation of

SSL and what part of the certificate in the entire process of plays.

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E

1 Getting Started

2 Summary

3 Description

4 Author’s Bio

5 Contact Us

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Summary:-

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How to Create Self-Signed

Certificate for Apache?

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Normal Web traffic is sent over the Internet. This means that anyone with

access to the right tools, you can snoop all this traffic. Of course, this can

lead to problems, in particular where security and privacy, it is necessary, as

for example in the data bank and credit card transactions. Secure Socket

Layer is used to encrypt the data stream between a Web server and Web

client.

SSL makes use of what is known as asymmetric cryptography, also known

as public key cryptography (PKI). With public key cryptography are created

two keys, one public, and one private. Anything encrypted with either key

can be decrypted only by its key. Therefore, if the current message or data

to be encrypted using the private key of the server, it can be decrypted only

by using the corresponding public key, ensures that the data would only

come from the server.

SSL Certificates uses public key cryptography to encrypt the data stream to

travel over the Internet, why a certificate is necessary? The technical answer

to this question is that the certificate is not really necessary-data is secure

and cannot be easily decrypted by a third party. The certificate is used,

however, a decisive role in the process of communication.

A certificate signed by a trusted certification authority (CA), provides its

holder is who it claims to be you. Without a trusted certificate to the signed

data can be encrypted, the party you are communicating with, however,

may not be whom you believe. Without certificates, it would be much more

common impersonation attacks.

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Step 1: Generate a Private Key

Toolbox is used to generate a RSA private key & service customers (signing a SSL Certificate request). You

can also use to generate a self-signed certificate that can be used for testing purposes or internal use.

The first step is to create your private RSA key. This key is a 1024-bit RSA key is encrypted using Triple-DES

and stored in PEM format, so it's readable as ASCII.

Command:

openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024

Output:

Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus

.........................................................++++++

........++++++

e is 65537 (0x10001)

Enter PEM pass phrase:

Verifying password - Enter PEM pass phrase:

Step 2: Generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request)

Once you generate the private key can generate a certificate signing request. CSR and then, use one of two

methods. Ideally, CSR will be sent to a certification authority such as verisign) to verify the identity of the

requestor, and issued a signing certificate or Thawte. The second option is to self-sign, Certificate Signing

Request, in the next section.

Period of CSR generation you will be prompted to enter a few pieces of information. These are the properties

of an x.509 certificate. Tip of the "common name (for example, your name)". It is important to be an SSL

server's fully qualified domain name of this field is filled in. If you want to protect this Web site will

https://public.akadia.com and enter public.akadia.com in this prompt. Generate CSR command, as follows:

Command:

openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

Output:

Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:CH

State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:Bern

Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Oberdiessbach

Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:Akadia AG

Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Information Technology

Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:public.akadia.com

Email Address []:martin dot zahn at akadia dot ch

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes

to be sent with your certificate request

A challenge password []:

An optional company name []:

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Step 3: Remove Passphrase from Key

One of misery-side effect of the private key is Apache ask oiith pass phrase password every time the Web

server is running. Clearly this is not necessarily as someone not always be around to type a password in a

phrase, such as after the restart, or crash. Mod_ssl provides the ability to use external program instead of in

the beyond-a built-in phrase, however, this is not necessarily the safest option or. It is possible to remove the

Triple-DES encryption key, and thus no longer need to type a passphrase.

If the private key is encrypted, it is very important that this file must be readable only by root user! If your

system is ever disclosed to a third party obtains your private key without encryption, the certificate

corresponding to the need to be revoked. With this he said, use the following command to remove the pass-

phrase from the key:

Command:

cp server.key server.key.org

openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key

The newly created server.key file has no more passphrase in it.

Output:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 745 Jun 29 12:19 server.csr

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 891 Jun 29 13:22 server.key

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 963 Jun 29 13:22 server.key.org

Step 4: Generating a Self-Signed Certificate

In this step, you create a self-signed certificate because you or you don't plan on the need your certificate

signed by a certification authority, or want to test the new SSL application while the CA is the signature of

the certificate. This temporary certificate will generate an error in the client browser to the effect that the CA

signature is you know and trust.

To generate a temporary certificate which is good for 365 days, issue the following command:

Command:

openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

Output:

Signature ok

subject=/C=CH/ST=Bern/L=Oberdiessbach/O=Akadia AG/OU=Information

Technology/CN=public.akadia.com/Email=martin dot zahn at akadia dot ch

Getting Private key

Step 5: Installing the Private Key and Certificate

Installed Apache with mod_ssl, it creates several libraries in the Apache config. Location of this directory

will differ depending on how Apache compiled.

Config code:

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Config code:

cp server.crt /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt

cp server.key /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key

Step 6: Configuring SSL Enabled Virtual Hosts

http-ssl.conf:

SSLEngine on

SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/server.key

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown

CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \

"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

Step 7: Restart Apache and Test

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