Creating Self Signed Root and Server Certificates
Certificates are a requirement for almost all communications in order to be secure. The purpose of this article it to describe the process of creating a Root CA certificate and then a Server certificate signed by the first. This is very useful when developing or testing an application and you do not have a CA set up or budget to buy a certificate. The following command will create a Root CA certificate in the Personal folder of the current user certificate store. $RootCert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName "CPolydorou Root CA" ` -CertStoreLocation "Cert:\CurrentUser\My" ` -KeyLength 4096 ` -KeyUsageProperty All ` -KeyUsage CertSign,CRLSign,DigitalSignature ` -KeyExportPolicy Exportable ` -KeyAlgorithm RSA ` -FriendlyName "CPolydorou Root Certification Authority Certificat...