GE Multinet 4 Instruction Manual page 221

CHAPTER 6: OPERATIONAL GUIDE
MULTINET4 MULTI-PORT SERIAL SERVER & MANAGED SWITCH – INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to 'cakey.pem'
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You are about to be asked to enter information that will be
incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name
or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:MA
Locality Name (eg, city) []:North Andover
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:DYMEC,
Inc.
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Technical Services
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:Support
Email Address []:support@dymec.com
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
Step 2: Generate a self-signed CA certificate from the request
$ openssl x509 -req -in careq.pem -sha1 -signkey cakey.pem -out
cacert.pem
Signature ok
subject=/C=US/ST=MA/L=North Andover/O=DYMEC, Inc./OU=Technical
Services/CN=Support/emailAddress=support@dymec.com
Getting Private key
Step 3: Create the CA's Key File
$ cat cacert.pem cakey.pem > ca.pem
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