Introduction

In this tutorial, you first request a server certificate from the CA. Then you take the role of the CA and issue the requested certificate. To do this, you use the following scripts:

• create_srv_req.cmd creates a request for a server certificate, using the OpenSSL command openssl req. It creates a public/private key pair for your server, putting the public key in a certificate request, which you subsequently send to the CA.
• sign_srv.cmd, which processes a server certificate request created with the above script, and signs it using the openssl ca command. It creates a signed certificate, which containing the public key from the certificate request.

These scripts are supplied with Micro Focus Demo CA and are by default in Program Files\Micro Focus\DemoCA.

To find out the Windows directory, look up the registry key: HKLM\Software\Micro Focus\DemoCA\1.0\Setup\DemoCAFolder