Create a OpenSSL certificate on Windows

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Since I m very new to SSL certificates  and the creation and usage of them I figured maybe StackOverflow members can help me out   I m from Holland  the common way of online payments is by implementing iDEAL  An online payment protocol supported by the major banks  I have to implement a  professional  version  This includes creating a RSA private key  Based on that key I have to create a certificate and upload it to the webserver   I m on a Windows machine and completely confused what to do  I took a look at the OpenSSL website  because the manual forwarded me to that website to get a SSL Toolkit   The manual provides two commands which have to be executed in order to create a RSA key and a certificate   The commands are   openssl genrsa -des3    out priv pem -passout pass myPassword 1024  and  openssl req -x509 -new -key priv pem -passin pass myPassword -days 3650 -out cert cer  Is there a way I can do this by a utility on a windows machine  I ve downloaded PuTTy KeyGenerator  But I m not sure what to do  I ve created a key  SSH-2 RSA  whatever that is    but how do I create a certificate with that key

User · Answer

To create a self signed certificate on Windows 7 with IIS 6...

Open IIS
Select your server (top level item or your computer's name)
Under the IIS section, open "Server Certificates"
Click "Create Self-Signed Certificate"
Name it "localhost" (or something like that that is not specific)
Click "OK"

You can then bind that certificate to your website...

Right click on your website and choose "Edit bindings..."
Click "Add"
- Type: https
- IP address: "All Unassigned"
- Port: 443
- SSL certificate: "localhost"
Click "OK"
Click "Close"

User · Answer

You can download a native OpenSSL for Windows  or you can always use Cygwin

User · Answer

Consider using certificate depot web app to easily create private key and certificate based on it  http   www cert-depot com   It can also create a PFX for you    Disclaimer  I am the creator of certificate depot

User · Answer

You can certainly use putty  puttygen exe  to do that   Or you can get Cygwin to use the utilities you just described

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If you re on windows and using apache  maybe via WAMP or the Drupal stack installer  you can additionally download the git for windows package  which includes many useful linux command line tools  one of which is openssl    The following command creates the self signed certificate and key needed for apache and works fine in windows   openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa 2048 -keyout privatekey key -out certificate crt

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