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These steps and the certificates created from them should not be used for a production environment without approval from your company’s Security professional.AUTOSOL does not provide this information for use as a source of security advice or best practices. The use of these examples is done at your own discretion and risk and with agreement that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from such activities. |
OpenSSL
You should always check with your IT/Security department before compiling or installing any Open Source software.
Windows:
If it isn’t already installed, download Download and install OpenSSL (https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries) or compile the source directly if preferred (https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/openssl-3.2.1/INSTALL.md ). *You should always check with your IT/Security department before compiling or installing any Open Source software. Once openssl is installed you can create your certificate chainif it isn’t already.
Linux
To verify OpenSSL must be is installed and in your system PATH . For in Debian Linux, you may check to see if openssl is installed and on your PATH using the which use the “which” command: $ openssl which
Where the expected output is the file path where openssl is installed. Example:
$ which openssl
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If a file path is returned, it is the location where OpenSSL is installed
/usr/bin/opensslIf
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nothing is returned, OpenSSL is not installed
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. OpenSSL can be installed using the package manager
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in Debian
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openssl
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