Create a SSL certificate on Windows

Question

Hi all,

Since I'm very new to SSL certificates, and the creation and usage of them I figured maybe StackOverflow members can help me out.

I'm from Holland, the common way of online payments is by implementing iDEAL. An online payment protocol supported by the major banks. I have to implement a 'professional' version. This includes creating a RSA private key. Based on that key I have to create a certificate and upload it to the webserver.

I'm on a Windows machine and completely confused what to do. I took a look at the OpenSSL website, because the manual forwarded me to that website to get a SSL Toolkit.

The manual provides two commands which have to be executed in order to create a RSA key and a certificate.

The commands are:

openssl genrsa -des3 –out priv.pem -passout pass:myPassword 1024

and

openssl req -x509 -new -key priv.pem -passin pass:myPassword -days 3650 -out cert.cer

Is there a way I can do this by a utility on a windows machine? I've downloaded PuTTy KeyGenerator. But I'm not sure what to do, I've created a key (SSH-2 RSA, whatever that is..) but how do I create a certificate with that key?

Any help is much appreciated!

Ben

Answer 1

You can download a native OpenSSL for Windows, or you can always use Cygwin.

Answer 2

You can certainly use putty (puttygen.exe) to do that.

Or you can get Cygwin to use the utilities you just described.