[cfssl] How to generate the custom TLS certificate in 2 mins

This post will walk you through how to generate your own TLS certificate with tool cfssl. cfssl is one of cloudflare projects, which has over 7k stars in GitHub. First of all, let’s download the latest binary. Currently it’s on v1.6.1 while I’m writing this post. In the release page, you can see there are many binaries with different platform and arch. For this tutorial, we will just need to download two binaries cfssl_<version>_<platform>_<arch> and cfssljson_<version>_<platform>_<arch> as shown below. Choose the one that fits your platform and arch. ...

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