How to create a self-signed certificate ?

Private key generation:
```
openssl genrsa -out ./server.key 1024
```
Public key (certificate) generation:
```
openssl req -new -key ./server.key -x509 -days 3650 -out ./server.crt
```
(3650 means ten years of validity)
View the certificate content (human read):
```
openssl x509 -in server.crt -text -noout
```

Then you can use this certificat for example in your apache serveur to handle HTTPS urls :

    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile    /etc/apache2/ssl/server.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/server.key

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