Certificate management

1. Generate certificates.
   1. Public trusted CA.
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There are many public and free certificate providers to choose from. One of the best trusted certificate providers is Let’s encrypt. Everything you need to know about how to generate certificates signed by their trusted CA can be found .

Self-signed certificate

A private key and certificate signing request are required to create an SSL certificate. These can be generated with a few simple commands. When the openssl req command asks for a “challenge password”, just press return, leaving the password empty. This password is used by Certificate Authorities to authenticate the certificate owner when they want to revoke their certificate. Since this is a self-signed certificate, there’s no way to revoke it via CRL (Certificate Revocation List).

Generate SSL certificate

The file is your certificate suitable for use with Dashboard along with the private key.