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QuickCert allows you to quickly and easily create SSL
certificates.  It uses a simple configuration file to generate
self-signed client and server certificates.

QuickCert is a compilation of NAKAMURA Hiroshi's post to
ruby-talk number 89917:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/89917

the example scripts referenced in the above post, and
gen_csr.rb from Ruby's OpenSSL examples.

QuickCert's homepage is:

http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/QuickCert.html

USAGE

A simple QuickCert configuration file looks like:

  full_hostname = `hostname`.strip
  domainname = full_hostname.split('.')[1..-1].join('.')
  hostname = full_hostname.split('.')[0]

  CA[:hostname] = hostname
  CA[:domainname] = domainname
  CA[:CA_dir] = File.join Dir.pwd, "CA"
  CA[:password] = '1234'

  CERTS << {
    :type => 'server',
    :hostname => 'uriel',
    :password => '5678',
  }

  CERTS << {
    :type => 'client',
    :user => 'drbrain',
    :email => '[e-mail]',
  }

This configuration will create a Certificate Authority in a
'CA' directory in the current directory, a server certificate
with password '5678' for the server 'uriel' in a directory
named 'uriel', and a client certificate for drbrain in the
directory 'drbrain' with no password.

There are additional SSL knobs you can tweak in the
qc_defaults.rb file.

To generate the certificates, simply create a qc_config file
where you want the certificate directories to be created, then
run QuickCert.

Version data entries

3 entries across 3 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
IOWA-1.0.3	utils/QuickCert-1.0.2/README
IOWA-1.0.2	utils/QuickCert-1.0.2/README
IOWA-1.0.0	utils/QuickCert-1.0.2/README