README.md

Chained (With Shared Intermediates) Certificates

This tls-gen variation generates a root CA, two intermediary CAs and two certificate/key pairs signed by the 2nd intermediate CA:

• Chain 1: root CA => intermediate 1 => intermediate 2 => client certificate/key pair
• Chain 2: root CA => intermediate 1 => intermediate 2 => server certificate/key pair

Generating

# pass a password using the PASSWORD env variable
make
# results will be under the ./result directory
ls -lha ./result

Generated CA certificate as well as client and server certificate and private keys will be under the result directory.

It possible to use [ECC][ecc-intro] for intermediate and leaf keys:

# pass a private key password using the PASSWORD variable if needed
make USE_ECC=true ECC_CURVE="prime256v1"
# results will be under the ./result directory
ls -lha ./result

The list of available curves can be obtained with

openssl ecparam -list_curves

Regeneration

To regenerate, use

# pass a private key password using the PASSWORD variable if needed
make regen

The regen target accepts the same variables as gen (default target) above.

Verification

You can verify the generated client and server certificates against the generated CA one with

make verify

Certificate Information

To display client and server certificate information, use

make info

This assumes the certificates were previously generated.