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My own Certificate Authority: Create your own graphical CA for Intranets with Open Source Software for Windows, Linux and MAC (CTS SOLUTIONS IT-PRO E-Books Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Karl Joch (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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My own Certificate Authority

Easy step by step guide with over 20 images to create your own graphical CA (Certificate Authority) for Intranets with free Open Source Software available for Windows, Linux and MAC.

You can use the software introduced in this e-book to operate your own CA. Well organized you are able to create a master root certificate for your CA to sign your certificates. Furthermore, you are able to create a sub CA certificate for a department and they can handle their Intranet SSL certificates by themselves.

Introducing a fully featured Open Source Software, available as source code and binary version for Windows, Linux and MAC, able to handle X.509 certificates, certificate requests, RSA, DSA and EC private keys, Smartcards and CRLs.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Table of Contents
Legal Notes

The Problem of IT-Admins
Types of Certificates needed 8
Certificates signed by a known Authority 9
Certificates signed by your own Authority 9
Ways to create or receive Certificates 10
Buying Certificates 11
Using Let's Encrypt Web Server Certificates 11
Your own Certificate Authority 12

Introducing the CA software
Features 14
Download & Installation 15
First Start 16
Creating your first database 17

Using Templates
Create your CA Template 19
Create your Server Template 21
Create your Client Template 22
Template Overview 22

Your Master CA Certificate
Create certificate from template 23
Check your Certificate 25
Export the public key for distribution 26

Creating the CA structure
Create the first sub CA 27
Creating Server Certificates
Create server certificate from template 30
Preparing your Apache https server 32
Sample Apache SSL config 33

More Features
Creating signing requests 34
Importing bought certificates 34
Revocation management 34

Delegating CA's
After adding more data

About The Author

Karl M. Joch is founder of CTS GMBH with more than 30 years experience in national and international projects. He worked in over 15 countries.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N31I9PQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CTS GMBH; 201701st edition (January 6, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 6, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1864 KB
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Karl Joch

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1978 I started in the IT-Industry using IBM S3/15, Siemens BS2000 Jumbos and DEC PDP systems. At this time we have done most of the coding in Assembler, Cobol and other languages people mostly don't know anymore.

I opened my own company, CTS GMBH (CTS.at), in November 1985 serving customers with IT services.

CTS GMBH is successful since over 30 years and a trusted partner for IT services. Customers range from small companies to European Top-500.

Working with Open Source Software started in the early 90's of the last century, building up a knowledge base which is not seen very often. Privacy and security was always a top priority for me.

General rule: “I don't have anything to hide, but compared to a lot of people I do care a lot who spies on me and collects data about me.”

I hope you enjoy reading my books, using the information to build solutions for a stable, secure, monitored, scalable, easy maintainable and as much as possible automated IT-infrastructure.

*Note: I am native German speaker and have done the best to make my English error free as much as possible. If you still find typos or grammar errors, feel free to inform me at books@kmj.at.

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Manly Geek
1.0 out of 5 stars Not Even Worth 0.99 much less 9.99
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2020
This book isn't much more than a poorly written reduction of the online manual for xca. XCA ia a very good, free, graphical Certificate Authority management tool. I use xca for building root CA's that I can take offline for additional PKI security. Get the software but don't bother with this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simples e direto
Reviewed in Brazil on February 4, 2023
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Quer saber como criar sua autoridade certificadora pra fazer testes ou desenvolvimento de serviços acessíveis apenas localmente? Eis aqui o tutorial definitivo. Nada de teorias complexas, nada de linha de comando com 3 mil opções diferentes. Simples e direto. Em um dia o assunto está resolvido. Lhe GARANTO!
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Roberto Rubén Ruiz Del Valle
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro
Reviewed in Mexico on July 28, 2017
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Excelente libro, el contenido es muy directo con el tema, y muy sencillo de leer.
Explica perfecto como utilizar la aplicación y como crear un CA.

Agradezco mucho al autor, me ha ayudado bastante con mi trabajo.
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Reichel AG
5.0 out of 5 stars sehr gute Hilfe, um https auf localhost zum Laufen zu bringen
Reviewed in Germany on June 9, 2018
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Das E-Book hat super geholfen. Das Ziel war, unter Debian 9.x 64-bit Apache2 SSL-TLS auf localhost einzurichten. Habe es jetzt endlich hinbekommen, siehe Bild...
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Reichel AG
5.0 out of 5 stars sehr gute Hilfe, um https auf localhost zum Laufen zu bringen
Reviewed in Germany on June 9, 2018
Das E-Book hat super geholfen. Das Ziel war, unter Debian 9.x 64-bit Apache2 SSL-TLS auf localhost einzurichten. Habe es jetzt endlich hinbekommen, siehe Bild...
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