initca

Documentation

Overview

Package initca contains code to initialise a certificate authority, generating a new root key and certificate.

Index

• Variables
• func New(req *csr.CertificateRequest) (cert, csrPEM, key []byte, err error)
• func NewFromPEM(req *csr.CertificateRequest, keyFile string) (cert, csrPEM []byte, err error)

Variables

var CAPolicy = &config.Signing{
	Default: &config.SigningProfile{
		Usage:        []string{"cert sign", "crl sign"},
		ExpiryString: "43800h",
		Expiry:       5 * helpers.OneYear,
		CA:           true,
	},
}

CAPolicy contains the CA issuing policy as default policy.

Functions

func New

func New(req *csr.CertificateRequest) (cert, csrPEM, key []byte, err error)

New creates a new root certificate from the certificate request.

func NewFromPEM

func NewFromPEM(req *csr.CertificateRequest, keyFile string) (cert, csrPEM []byte, err error)

NewFromPEM creates a new root certificate from the key file passed in.