Example - Creating Personal Certificate

STEP 5 When browsing to the X family device, enter the workstation name instead of the IP address in your Web browser. This name and certificate works only on that particular workstation.

Example - Creating Personal Certificate

The following is an example of how to create you own personal certification. User entries are in bold. For security purposes, it is suggested that you do not use the passwords provided below.

[]# openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -out cert.pem -keyout privkey.pem

Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf

Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key

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writing new private key to 'privkey.pem' Enter PEM pass phrase: DefaultPemPhrase

Verifying password - Enter PEM pass phrase: DefaultPemPhrase

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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) [GB]: US

State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]: Texas

Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]: Austin

Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]: 3Com Corporation

Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: TAC

Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []: TPTI

Email Address []: my_email@3com.com

[]# openssl pkcs12 -export -in cert.pem -inkey privkey.pem -out to_import.p12

Enter PEM pass phrase: DefaultPemPhrase

Enter Export Password: exportPassCode

Verifying password - Enter Export Password: exportPassCode

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