Create SSL Certificate

If you want to get a FREE SSL certificate, you can get it from CAcert. All you need to do is to have your CSR ready.

As per my previous blog about creating CSR, all you need to do with openssl (Linux or cygwin) is:

%> openssl req -new -nodes -keyout private.key -out public.csr

Submit the public.csr to the CAcert, it will give you the public key of your SSL certificate (save it as public.cer)

Now you need to convert both your public and private key to PKCS12 format:

%> openssl pkcs12 -export -out cacert.p12 -in public.cer -inkey private.key

You then will have cacert.p12 which you could import to IIS