Create self-signed certificates is useful when managing apache and dovecot imap servers. I have always found it to be a pain to create the certificates. Here’s simple instructions for creating one. http://www.technocage.com/~caskey/openssl/ In a nutshell, openssl req -new -newkey rsa:1024 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout www.example.com.pem -out www.example.com.pem You can then use the file above … Continue reading one-step self-signed SSL certificate