Generating SSL Certificates

Generating SSL Certificates

This chapter describes how to generate certificates that can be used with CA XCOM Data Transport.

For more information on using OpenSSL, see Network Security with OpenSSL by John Vega, Matt Messier, and Pravir Chandra (O'Reilly & Associates).

This section contains the following topics:

Using SSL Mode

Setting Expiration

Creating the CA Certificate

Creating the Server Certificate

Creating the Client Certificate

Configuring the CA XCOM Data Transport SSL Server

Configuring the CA XCOM Data Transport Client

Default Sample Scripts

Cipher Suites

Supported Cryptographic Protocols

Supported Cipher Suites