From the course: Linux System Engineer: Web Servers and DNS Using Apache, NGINX, and BIND
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About OpenSSL - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux System Engineer: Web Servers and DNS Using Apache, NGINX, and BIND
About OpenSSL
- [Instructor] Because certificates are the same with SSL or TLS, we can still use the OpenSSL toolkit to create and manage them even if we're using Mozilla's NSS module for TLS encryption. In a previous video, we installed OpenSSL. The OpenSSL toolkit offers sub-commands to create and manage encryption keys, certificate signing requests, digital certificates and also to test server and client connections. The sub-commands are categorized in three areas, Standard commands, cipher commands, and message digest commands. Let's list the commands in each area. You'll want to be logged in to rhhost 1 with a terminal open. If we run OpenSSL without a sub-command, it opens in interactive mode. To get out of this mode press q to quit. Now type in openssl space list-standard-commands and hit enter. To get a list of cipher commands bring your line back and change standard to cipher and hit enter. And lastly to get a list of message digest commands, bring your line back again and change cipher to…
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