Signing my own certificates in IIS?

Hi everyone,

A user of mine would like a new SSL certificate to test something with. He
doesn't need it to be signed by Verisign or a legitimate CA, at least not
now.

I've generated many a cert in IIS 5 before, but I've always sent the .cer
file to Verisign for approval, and am not certain how to "sign" it myself.
Would anyone have suggestions on how I could do this? Thanks for the help.

Joe
Thu May 26 15:24:36 CDT 2005

Maybe this?:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290625

"Jim Bancroft" <asdfsklw@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi everyone,
>
> A user of mine would like a new SSL certificate to test something with.
He
> doesn't need it to be signed by Verisign or a legitimate CA, at least not
> now.
>
> I've generated many a cert in IIS 5 before, but I've always sent the .cer
> file to Verisign for approval, and am not certain how to "sign" it myself.
> Would anyone have suggestions on how I could do this? Thanks for the
help.
>
>
>

AlokKumar
Thu May 26 14:50:05 CDT 2005

you can install OpenSSL (http://www.openssl.org/) which is a open source and
then sign your certificate.

Alok

"Jim Bancroft" wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> A user of mine would like a new SSL certificate to test something with. He
> doesn't need it to be signed by Verisign or a legitimate CA, at least not
> now.
>
> I've generated many a cert in IIS 5 before, but I've always sent the .cer
> file to Verisign for approval, and am not certain how to "sign" it myself.
> Would anyone have suggestions on how I could do this? Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
>

Leon
Fri May 27 04:05:22 CDT 2005

Joe Iano wrote:
> Maybe this?:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290625

Or if you have certificate services installed you can sign the csr from
within the mmc snap-in after submitting it through the web interface.

Kristofer
Sat May 28 10:06:14 CDT 2005

Hi Jim,

In the IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools, you have a tool called SelfSSL. It
generates and installs a self-signed SSL certificate.

Also see:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56fc92ee-a71a-4c73-b628-ade629c89499&DisplayLang=en

http://www.visualwin.com/SelfSSL/


Good Luck!

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert (IIS MVP)
www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
www.ilopia.com


Jim Bancroft wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> A user of mine would like a new SSL certificate to test something with.
He
> doesn't need it to be signed by Verisign or a legitimate CA, at least not
> now.
>
> I've generated many a cert in IIS 5 before, but I've always sent the .cer
> file to Verisign for approval, and am not certain how to "sign" it
myself.
> Would anyone have suggestions on how I could do this? Thanks for the
help.