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John Smith
John Smith

Reputation: 4516

How do you chain a self-signed certificate to a root certificate?

I can create a self-signed digital certificate using Office's Selfcert.exe tool, but I don't know how to chain it to a root certificate.

Can someone tell me how to do it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 236

Answers (1)

Jirka Hanika
Jirka Hanika

Reputation: 13529

If you want the self-signed certificate to inherit trust from a root certificate, that cannot be done.

The whole point of certificates is that the certificate authority (root certificate) has verified your identity in some non-electronic means, and is issuing a certificate to that effect. So you cannot issue one yourself until you crack the root keys of the certificate authority - which is hopefully no small feat.

Upvotes: 2

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