How to create a valid self signed SSL Certificate?

In this video, I will explain how to generate valid self-signed SSL certificates for your internal network. We will use an open-source tool, OpenSSL to create an SSL cert for my Proxmox Server, that is valid for my internal domain and my private IP address. #OpenSSL #TLS #HomeLab

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Some TLS basics
04:33 - What are valid SSL Certificates?
07:45 - Why use Self Signed Certificates
11:53 - Advertisement-*
12:27 - Generate a Private CA
16:31 - Generate and Sign an SSL Cert
21:11 - Upload a Full chain Cert
22:22 - Import Private CA in Windows

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[RayDeMoss]

Thank you very much. This was extremely useful. You took a very confusing and convoluted process and made it as easy to understand as possible. I was able to setup certs on several home servers that I've been trying to figure out for years. I really appreciate your time making this video. Very helpful.

[charleseaster]

Hi Christian, I have been watching your videos for ages and with your help I have grown my little raspberry pi "home lab" out into 3 separate servers running more services than I have any business or need to run. I enjoyed this video and it was very informative. Thank you for all the help and wish me luck setting up my own CA.

[SomeGuyFromFlorida]

Might be the most important video I've watched in 5 years, wow. Thanks SO much for this, very well done!

[LordDemonos]

I subscribed last week, mostly because I'm into Docker and you seem to cover it a lot. You've already proven to be quite useful with this tutorial, which I ran into completely by coincidence. Just wanted to say I really appreciate you, thanks!

[nirvanah]

Thanks a million! I was following some other documented tutorials and none of them seem to explain what is important and what is not. I didn't have a DNS name so I had to rely on IP addresses. After spending 2 days of trying to setup SSL certificates, I finally found and followed your video and it just worked straight away!

[pedrobarone]

I've been trying this for weeks, and you managed to make me understand and actually learn something about certificates. Indeed, you are an excelent teacher! Thanks a lot

[cynx]

You really know your stuff. So much information in 25 minutes!

[kanylekrigeren]

This was exactly what I needed to understand the cert-creation process. Thank you, and I have now subscribed to your channel :D

[fabiena]

Thank you so much. I had been annoyed by this for a long time. I appreciated very much your way of explaining things with just the level of details needed (at least in my case). I could follow the steps one after the other and it worked fine. I wrote down the process to repeat this in the future. Thank you so much again, from France.

[RandomAlias]

Hands down, absolutely outstanding work. Thank you so much for this video. I absolutely loved it. You earned a sub!

[peculiar]

Nice overview about CA's and how Windows trust certificates from websites. And well detailed explanation about the steps to generate a valid certificate. It really comes in handy to me right know, because I was dealing with some troubles to generate a certificate to a local system in my job. Thank you very much! Keep it up! 👏👏👏

[TinkerTech]

just started to dip my toes into self signing so this is wonderful timing that you to made a fresh video about it.
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[ZeeKay]

Great video! You've corrected the topic in great detail. This will be my reference video on this topic. Keep producing video on these interesting topics. You've got a new subscriber

[johns]

Thanks so much for this video. It really helped me a lot. For a long time I was having problems with other tutorials tying to configure this, and with your video I managed to get everything working really fast. Thanks again!

[BlitzFingers]

Thanks Bro. This explanitation gave me the needed steps to finally learn the SSL certificate concept and creation. All of my internally hosted consols are now secure. It was even possible for me to adjust my certificate chain for a cisco wlc which I wanted to start using. Without your instructions, I couldn't have made this jump. Vielen Dank!

[jaxwylde]

Thanks for doing this. I watched it several times (and reviewed your very helpful 'Cheat-sheets' on git). I understand the process for setting up internal CA (with respective keys), as well as the signing request process. BUT, I'm still not sure how to go about creating certificates that have *wild-cards* for an IP range so that I can use more broadly in my home lab environment. I'll keep plugging away with some other how-to tutorials, and eventually I'll have the 'Eureka' moment and it'll all make sense. Nonetheless, your tutorial was very good and much appreciated. Cheers.

[photoshop-requests]

After a very long time struggling with it I finally got it working thanks to you! Thank you!

[khaledbudajaja]

Your video came just in time to save my day.
Didn't know i could be a CA as well create a SSL certificate.
Amazing

[ronnyrrr]

love the videos pal - literally just finished watching several of your nginx proxy manager videos!

[pecasuy]

Thank you for your time and knowledge, an invaluable help, especially because you turned something complex into a simple one, thank you, it has helped me a lot