Project: Makessl

Makessl is a Makefile for GNU make that assists you in generating SSL keys, certificate requests, and (optionally) certificates.

Using it is as simple as:

 git clone https://github.com/deweysasser/makessl
 cd makessl
 vi ssl-data.txt # set the certificate data to your own information
 mkdir -p hosts/www.example.com
 make

The result is that an RSA key and certificate request will be left in that subdirectory. If, instead of ‘make’, you use:

 make certs

It will create a CA key and a certificate for you. This, for example, is terribly useful for maintaining OpenVPN certificates – just give the ovpn server the root CA and chain and then make client certs with abandon!

Project is available on Github at: https://github.com/deweysasser/makessl