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How to create a self-signed certificate

suntong on July 09, 2019

Prefix All previous squid caching server series talk about SSL bumping, and include steps on creating a self-signed certificate. I.e., ...
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eaglerob

Or you can just use mkcert github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
I use it like this on windows
mkcert.exe "*.dev.local" localhost 127.0.0.1

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suntong

Cool! Thanks a lot for that!!!

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Praneet Nadkar

Good one! I am now wondering, can makecert.exe do all of this?

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suntong • Edited

"makecert.exe"? Oh, I didn't know it. I assume it is windows based, right?

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Praneet Nadkar

yes. A part of windows SDK.