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Re: [Handle-info] Procedure to create handle private/public key and derived certificate under windows?



You can generate certificates and keys with the OpenSSL toolkit; a number of places provide OpenSSL binaries compiled for Windows.

https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries

-- Scott

On 1/8/20 12:22 PM, Robert R Tupelo-Schneck wrote:
You could use the scripts hdl-keygen and hdl-convert-key from the Handle distribution to create a keypair and then get the keys in PEM format.

At that point you need tools to create a self signed certificate with a specified "distinguished name" and public key using a specified private key.  I don't know what the appropriate tools are for Windows, unfortunately.

Robert

On Jan 8, 2020, at 9:15 AM, Robert Verkerk <robert.verkerk@surfsara.nl <mailto:robert.verkerk@surfsara.nl>> wrote:

Hi,

We have a procedure to create a handle private/public key-pair and derived certificate without public key to authenticate against the handle HTTP JSON REST api. This is entirely linux based. The authentication is described by http://www.handle.net/tech_manual/HN_Tech_Manual_9.pdf chapter 14.6.2.


Does anybody have a method to accomplish this using Windows only and is willing to share it?

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Met vriendelijke groet,

Robert Verkerk
systeem expert
Data Preservation Services

p.s. our procedure using linux is described on: https://userinfo.surfsara.nl/systems/epic-pid/new-users
p.s.2 the same method is also described on:


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