HTTPS 2048-bit RSA TLS/SSL Cert Example ==== This is targeted towards people who are using io.js / node.js, but as far as generating and testing certs, these are the exact same **openssl** commands you'd use with any language. Here's the zero-config example: ``` git clone https://github.com/coolaj86/nodejs-ssl-example.git pushd nodejs-ssl-example npm install node ./serve.js ``` Then visit . **Note**: Your browser will warn you that you the server is using a bogus certificate authority. That's okay for the purposes of this example. Special Notes ---- The key to this example is that **the certs are not self-signed**. Using self-signed certs is the stupidest thing that anyone ever tried to do in a browser. Instead, a bogus Root CA is created. Then the bogus Root CA is used to sign the certificates. If only the world knew that all you have to do to fix Self-Signed Certificate errors is to create one additional certificate and use that as the Certificate Authority... Full Article ----- See the full article at [How to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for HTTPS (TLS/SSL) RSA PEMs](http://blog.coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-create-a-csr-for-https-tls-ssl-rsa-pems/)