Self-Signed Certificate

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1. Introduction No matter if you are a software developer, a quality assurance engineer, or a DevOps engineer, you may need to generate a self-signed mutual TLS(mTLS) or TLS certificates and keys for testing purposes. As the title shows, this post is not a click bait. I will show you how to generate a self-signed TLS certificate and key in 10s for both server and client. Of course, if you have mTLS certificate and key files, you can also use part of them as self-signed TLS certificate and key. ...