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New Certicicate Authority Cert generation

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<para><link
xlink:href="http://datacenteroverlords.com/2012/03/01/creating-your-own-ssl-certificate-authority">Creating
Your Own SSL Certificate Authority (and Dumping Self Signed
Certs)</link></para>
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<para>The previously linked recipe may fail for
<productname>Google Chrome</productname> being pickier about
certificates than <acronym>i.e.</acronym> the <productname>Firefox
browser</productname>. Consider the related <link
xlink:href="https://dgu2000.medium.com/working-with-self-signed-certificates-in-chrome-walkthrough-edition-a238486e6858">Working
With Self-Signed Certificates in Chrome (Walkthrough
Edition)</link></para>
<para>This works for both <productname>Chrome</productname> and
<productname>Firefox</productname> and most likely for other
browsers as well. It describes the creation of a wildcard
certificate being valid for a subdomain like e.g.
<code>g4.sdi.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de</code>. The Base64 certificate
conversion is not being required since Apache 2.4 will happily
accept both generated <filename>tls.crt</filename> and
<filename>tls.key</filename> files.</para>
<para>For a better understanding of the underlying concepts
consider the related <link
xlink:href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30977264/subject-alternative-name-not-present-in-certificate#answer-47779814">stackoverflow.com
article</link> for providing a <quote>Subject Alternative
Name</quote> extension when creating your certificate signing
request. The subsequent certificate creation may require a
<code>keyUsage = nonRepudiation, digitalSignature,
keyEncipherment</code> configuration as being proposed by <link
xlink:href="https://superuser.com/questions/1451895/err-ssl-key-usage-incompatible-solution#answer-1466427">superuser.com</link>.</para>
request. Certificate creation requires the following <link
xlink:href="https://superuser.com/questions/1451895/err-ssl-key-usage-incompatible-solution#answer-1466427">superuser.com</link>
proposal:</para>
<screen>keyUsage = nonRepudiation, digitalSignature, keyEncipherment</screen>
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