Creating a CA is a matter of creating a key and a certificate, which
has an extended attribute of "CA:true".  For more information, please
see RFC 5280, and X.509 (available for free download from the ITU --
but be warned, it reads like stereo instructions mated and their
offspring mated too, with the attendant massive inbreeding).

-Kyle H

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Bonham
<thomasbon...@bonhamlinux.org> wrote:
> As a new subscribe I hope that I’m using it to the right group.
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> I’m working on trying to figure out how to create a CA within my C based
> program. I have found some information on create the certificates within the
> program but I’m not able to find the function need to creating the CA
> itself. I have tried looking around on google but I’m not able to find the
> functions or what headers that I need to include.
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> Any help that anyone is able to give me would be great.
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> Thank you for the help.
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> Thomas
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