SSL Acrobatics
I flip a lot of websites around between servers, and often haven to migrate SSL certificates as part of the process. The below openssl commands represent most of what I encounter in terms of validations and encoding conversions. Primer First, a couple of basics on certificate components. The four SSL components to know are the Certificate Signing Request (CSR), the key, the certificate, and the Certificate Authority (CA) intermediate certificates. When starting fresh, you’ll first generate a CSR and a key....