Re: [asio-users] How to create certificates to use with SSL.

[Christopher K. <ch...@ko...>]

Hi Andrija,

Andrija Frincic <bob...@gm...> wrote:
> For an outgoing project i would like to use ASIO to implement
> transport layer, particularly i would like to use SSL to
> handle secure communication between clients and servers. I
> successfully designed transport layer on top of ASIO but i
> have a problem with creating certificates and keys to use with
> ASIO. To create set of keys and certificates i use a procedure
> described in  book about SSL called "Network Security With
> Openssl", unfortunately when i start server and client with a
> CA certificate and server key generated by that procedure
> handshake failed. I need a clue how to create certificate to
> use with a ASIO/SSL, currently i use test certificates
> provided by SSL example.

I presume you are talking about the O'Reilly book. I simply used
the steps described on pages 124-125 of that book -- the box
titled "Generating the Files Needed by the Examples". The only
difference is that I did not use a separate root CA and server
CA. In my case the server CA is the root CA.

Cheers,
Chris