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Creating certificates
13.2
Christian Hohnstädt
’s XCA freeware program is useful for creating certificates. Using this pro-
gram makes it easy to create X.509 certificates as well as the necessary private keys.
You can download the program from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xca
it in Windows in the usual way (run the
.exe
file).
When you launch XCA for the first time, a new database has to be created to manage the certifi-
cates. To do this, click
„
File
“ and then „
New DataBase
“
After choosing a name, file save location and password for the database, you can open it and start creating
a root (CA) certificate.