I'm thinking of writing a small GUI application that implements just the 2
following functions of:

*Create a self-signed certificate
*Create a private key

First, is there such an application already around (I can't find any), and
secondly, would a random seed made from the current time (date, hour,
minutes, seconds, ms) be okay (this would be running under Windows)?

The functions it would implement would be taken out of the OpenSSL source
(and credited accordingly) - not *all* the functions, just the ones
relating to cert & key generation.

The GUI for the certificate request would just have all the fields in
textboxes, nice and simple. The aim would be to make generating private
keys and self-signed certs easy for anyone. The (Windows) source code for
this application would be public for anyone to use.

Any comments on this appreciated,

Jeremy.


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