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NAME="AEN171">2.3. Create a non root Certification Authority Certificate.</H1
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>FIXME because I'm not sure about the procedure.</P
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>It is possible to use any signed certificate to sign any other certificate, provided that the certificate is valid and has been issued with the signing capability. So you can create a certificate request and a private key, make the certificate been signed by a third party and install the signed certificate and private key. The part -PRIVATE KEY- goes into private/cakey.pem while the part -CERTIFICATE- goes into cacert.pem. </P
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