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Self-Signed Certificates

Creating ECC Certificates

Here’s a very quick guide on creating ECC 256Bit Self-Signed Certificates with OpenSSL and Ubuntu 12 and 14.

1. Firstly lets create a folder to hold the files..

2. Move to that directory…

3. Now lets create the key

4. Create the request

5. Create the certificate

6. While we are here, lets combine the private key and certificate into a .pem file.

You now have a Self-Signed ECC 256Bit SHA256 certificate for your domain, and a .csr file for use at your favourite CA.

Should you wish to have ECC 384 Bit, simply replace “prime256v1” in step three, with secp384r1,
and “-sha256” in step five with -sha384.

Enjoy!