Tag: ca certificate

Become your own certification authority – Part 2

In the previous post we saw how to create an SSL certificate (*.thedummyprogrammer.com) and the related CA certificate. To show you how to use those certificates, I’m going to use them in a website running in the local IIS of my PC. A practical example with an IIS website We will see an example on…

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Become your own certification authority – Part 1

Suppose you developed a web application and you want to install this application in a test environment. To make the test more meaningful, you would like to install an SSL certificate with the application and use a domain name other than the standard ones, such as .com or .org. Consequently, the SSL certificate cannot be…

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