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SSCG - Simple Signed Certificate Generator

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Why?

x509 Certificates are complicated to get right. SSCG makes it easy to generate usable, signed certificates quickly without needing to understand complex openssl, certtool or certutil commands.

License

sscg is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version, along with an exception permitting the code to link against the OpenSSL library.

Quick Usage - Certificates Signed by a Private CA

/usr/bin/sscg

This will produce a ca.crt and a pair of service.pem and service-key.pem files in the current directory, the latter of which is signed by the private key of the ca.crt. The CA's private key will be destroyed by default after these files are created, so nothing further can be signed by it. (See this blog post for details on why this is desirable.)

Certificates generated by SSCG will be valid by default for securing the current machine's hostname and no others. To add further names (such as for a multi-homed system), look at the --subject-alt-name argument below.

Full Usage

Usage of sscg:

Usage: sscg [OPTION...]
  -q, --quiet                                           Display no output unless there is an error.
  -v, --verbose                                         Display progress messages.
  -d, --debug                                           Enable logging of debug messages. Implies verbose. Warning! This will print private key information to the
                                                        screen!
  -V, --version                                         Display the version number and exit.
  -f, --force                                           Overwrite any pre-existing files in the requested locations
      --lifetime=1-3650                                 Certificate lifetime (days). (default: 398)
      --country=US, CZ, etc.                            Certificate DN: Country (C). (default: "US")
      --state=Massachusetts, British Columbia, etc.     Certificate DN: State or Province (ST).
      --locality=Westford, Paris, etc.                  Certificate DN: Locality (L).
      --organization=My Company                         Certificate DN: Organization (O). (default: "Unspecified")
      --organizational-unit=Engineering, etc.           Certificate DN: Organizational Unit (OU).
      [email protected]                        Certificate DN: Email Address (Email).
      --hostname=server.example.com                     The valid hostname of the certificate. Must be an FQDN. (default: current system FQDN)
      --subject-alt-name alt.example.com                Optional additional valid hostnames for the certificate. In addition to hostnames, this option also accepts
                                                        explicit values supported by RFC 5280 such as IP:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy May be specified multiple
                                                        times.
      --package=STRING                                  Unused. Retained for compatibility with earlier versions of sscg.
      --key-strength=2048 or larger                     Strength of the certificate private keys in bits. (default: 2048)
      --hash-alg={sha256,sha384,sha512}                 Hashing algorithm to use for signing. (default: "sha256")
      --cipher-alg={des-ede3-cbc,aes-256-cbc}           Cipher to use for encrypting key files. (default: "aes-256-cbc")
      --ca-file=STRING                                  Path where the public CA certificate will be stored. (default: "./ca.crt")
      --ca-mode=0644                                    File mode of the created CA certificate.
      --ca-key-file=STRING                              Path where the CA's private key will be stored. If unspecified, the key will be destroyed rather than written
                                                        to the disk.
      --ca-key-mode=0600                                File mode of the created CA key.
      --ca-key-password=STRING                          Provide a password for the CA key file. Note that this will be visible in the process table for all users, so
                                                        it should be used for testing purposes only. Use --ca-keypassfile or --ca-key-password-prompt for secure
                                                        password entry.
      --ca-key-passfile=STRING                          A file containing the password to encrypt the CA key file.
  -C, --ca-key-password-prompt                          Prompt to enter a password for the CA key file.
      --crl-file=STRING                                 Path where an (empty) Certificate Revocation List file will be created, for applications that expect such a
                                                        file to exist. If unspecified, no such file will be created.
      --crl-mode=0644                                   File mode of the created Certificate Revocation List.
      --cert-file=STRING                                Path where the public service certificate will be stored. (default "./service.pem")
      --cert-mode=0644                                  File mode of the created certificate.
      --cert-key-file=STRING                            Path where the service's private key will be stored. (default "service-key.pem")
      --cert-key-mode=0600                              File mode of the created certificate key.
  -p, --cert-key-password=STRING                        Provide a password for the service key file. Note that this will be visible in the process table for all users,
                                                        so this flag should be used for testing purposes only. Use --cert-keypassfile or --cert-key-password-prompt for
                                                        secure password entry.
      --cert-key-passfile=STRING                        A file containing the password to encrypt the service key file.
  -P, --cert-key-password-prompt                        Prompt to enter a password for the service key file.
      --client-file=STRING                              Path where a client authentication certificate will be stored.
      --client-mode=0644                                File mode of the created certificate.
      --client-key-file=STRING                          Path where the client's private key will be stored. (default is the client-file)
      --client-key-mode=0600                            File mode of the created certificate key.
      --client-key-password=STRING                      Provide a password for the client key file. Note that this will be visible in the process table for all users,
                                                        so this flag should be used for testing purposes only. Use --client-keypassfile or --client-key-password-prompt
                                                        for secure password entry.
      --client-key-passfile=STRING                      A file containing the password to encrypt the client key file.
      --client-key-password-prompt                      Prompt to enter a password for the client key file.
      --dhparams-file=STRING                            A file to contain a set of Diffie-Hellman parameters. (Default: "./dhparams.pem")
      --no-dhparams-file                                Do not create the dhparams file
      --dhparams-named-group=STRING                     Output well-known DH parameters. The available named groups are: ffdhe2048, ffdhe3072, ffdhe4096, ffdhe6144,
                                                        ffdhe8192, modp_2048, modp_3072, modp_4096, modp_6144, modp_8192, modp_1536, dh_1024_160, dh_2048_224,
                                                        dh_2048_256. (Default: "ffdhe4096")
      --dhparams-prime-len=INT                          The length of the prime number to generate for dhparams, in bits. If set to non-zero, the parameters will be
                                                        generated rather than using a well-known group. (default: 0)
      --dhparams-generator={2,3,5}                      The generator value for dhparams. (default: 2)

Help options:
  -?, --help                                            Show this help message
      --usage                                           Display brief usage message

For developers, you can run with the environment variable SSCG_TALLOC_REPORT=true to get a memory leak report.