CentOS How to encrypt and decrypt files using openssl In this tutorial we will go over how to encrypt a text file that we can store in public storage without any security concerns. Suppose you are running an application in cloud platform and you are running daily backup of sql files and want to store it securely in block
Certificates How to generate self-signed certificate in Linux In this tutorial, I will be using centos 7 to generate self-signed certificate. You can use any linux operating system as long as it is openssl install. To install openssl follow below guide: Openssl installation CentOS, Redhat, Fedora: sudo yum install openssl Ubuntu, Debian sudo apt install openssl Generating certificate
Certificates Generate Self-Signed certificate in Windows 7 To generate self-signed certificate we will use makecert.exe. You will need to first download windows sdk for windows 7 or later. Download and install Windows SDK. Once you have downloaded and installed windows sdk. Go to sdk folder by executing below command. cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\
PowerShell Convert certificate from pfx to base64 with PowerShell To convert certificate that is in .pfx to base64 format in PowerShell, you can use .NET namespace available in PowerShell to convert. I had a scenario where I was required to use base64 encoding to upload certificate to Azure to secure communication to backend instance. Since Microsoft Azure provides rich
