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Creating a self-signed certificate

A self-signed certificate provides a certificate to enable SSL sessions between clients and the server, while waiting for the officially-signed certificate to be returned from the certificate authority (CA). A private and public key are created during this process. Creating a self-signed certificate generates a self-signed X509 certificate in the identified key database. A self-signed certificate has the same issuer name as its subject name.

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Use this procedure if you are acting as your own CA for a private Web network. Use the IKEYCMD command-line interface or the GSKCapiCmd tool to create a self-signed certificate.

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Related concepts
Managing keys with the IKEYCMD command line interface (Distributed systems)
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