Tripp Lite B096-048, 93-2879, B096-016 owner manual Https, Generating an encryption key

http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/openssl.html

http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/certificates.txt

15.8 HTTPS

The Management Console can be served using HTTPS by running the webserver via sslwrap. The server can be launched on request using inetd.

The HTTP server provided is a slightly modified version of the fnord-httpdfrom http://www.fefe.de/fnord/

The SSL implementation is provided by the sslwrap application compiled with OpenSSL support. More detailed documentation can be found at http://www.rickk.com/sslwrap/

If your default network address is changed or the unit is to be accessed via a known Domain Name, you can use the following steps to replace the default SSL Certificate and Private Key with ones tailored for your new address.

1. Generating an encryption key

To create a 1024 bit RSA key with a password, issue the following command on the command line of a Linux host with the openssl utility installed:

openssl genrsa -des3 -out ssl_key.pem 1024

2. Generating a self-signed certificate with OpenSSL

This example shows how to use OpenSSL to create a self-signed certificate. OpenSSL is available for most Linux distributions via the default package management mechanism. (Windows users can check http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html )

To create a 1024 bit RSA key and a self-signed certificate, send the following openssl command from the host you have openssl installed on:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 1000 \

-newkey rsa:1024 -keyout ssl_key.pem -out ssl_cert.pem

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