Certificate Authority Tests

Goals:

• Create a functional certificate authority
• Configurable CA and server certificate generation

OS	Curl Works	Requests Works	Nginx Works
OSX	yes	yes	yes
Ubuntu 22	yes	yes	yes

Usage

Generate certificates from config (e.g. test.yaml):

python generate.py --config ./config/test.yaml

Regenerate certificates:

python generate.py --regenerate ...

Regenerate CA:

python generate.py --regenerate-ca ...

Test

Test the certificate generation process:

sudo python test.py

Resources

All the tutorials and stack exchanges.

• Create Your Own SSL Certificate Authority for Local HTTPS Development
• How to generate a self-signed SSL certificate using OpenSSL?
• Root certificate authority works windows/linux but not mac osx
• More strict Server Certificate handling in iOS 13 macOS 10.15
• Never see localhost HTTPS warnings again
• Mac Users: Create Your Own Certificate Authority & Self Signed Certificate in Keychain Access