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• Create Private Key
• Create Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
• Create and sign Certificate

The article explains from scratch how to create Signing Certificates for use with JS7. Users who operate their own Certificate Authority might find different approaches and different responsibilities for the indicated steps. There's more than one way how to do it.

Examples in the article make use of OpenSSL 1.1.1k  FIPS 25 Mar 2021 and JS7 Release 2.7.2. OpenSSL ships with Linux & other Unix OS and is available for Windows. The examples are focused on Unix.

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Creating the Private Key and Certificate Signing Request

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