Hello. Thanks for the solution. Actually I phrased the
question wrong. I am sorry about that. Let me rephrase
my question.
I actually tried to create the self signed certificate
without the x509 option using "req" as follows,
1) First generated the cert request,
> openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -c
Hi Sanjay,
the following is an extract from the
documentation(http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/req.html) for the "req"
command :
..
- days *n
* when the *-x509* option is being used this specifies the number of
days to certify the certificate for. *The default is 30 days.*
..
so, if u
Hi everyone. I am a newbie with regards to openssl. I
would really appreciate if anyone can help me with
this. I am having a problem with creation of a root
certificate in linux. I have created my own
configuration file "openssl.cnf" and am using that to
create a root ca certificate. I am using the