Creating Wildcard Certificates with makecert.exe
Posted
by Shawn Cicoria
on Geeks with Blogs
See other posts from Geeks with Blogs
or by Shawn Cicoria
Published on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:14:51 GMT
Indexed on
2011/06/29
8:23 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 584
Filed under:
Be nice to be able to make wildcard certificates for use in development with makecert – turns out, it’s real easy. Just ensure that your CN= is the wildcard string to use.
The following sequence generates a CA cert, then the public/private key pair for a wildcard certificate
REM make the CA makecert -pe -n "CN=*.contosotest.com" -a sha1 -len 2048 -sky exchange -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 -ic CA.cer -iv CA.pvk -sp "Microsoft RSA SChannel Cryptographic Provider" -sy 12 -sv wildcard.pvk wildcard.cer pvk2pfx -pvk wildcard.pvk -spc wildcard.cer -pfx wildcard.pfx REM now make the server wildcard cert makecert -pe -n "CN=*.contosotest.com" -a sha1 -len 2048 -sky exchange -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 -ic CA.cer -iv CA.pvk -sp "Microsoft RSA SChannel Cryptographic Provider" -sy 12 -sv wildcard.pvk wildcard.cer pvk2pfx -pvk wildcard.pvk -spc wildcard.cer -pfx wildcard.pfx
© Geeks with Blogs or respective owner
