Generating Certificates

Name Constraints Examples

The following commands were used along with extensions.conf to generate the certificates in nc.pem and nc_fail.pem.

# Once for each certificate.
$ openssl genrsa -out keyN.pem 2048
$ openssl req -new -key keyN.pem -out certN.csr

# <extension> will be v3_ca_nc for the intermediate and v3_req for the device.
$ openssl x509 -req -in certN.csr -CA certN-1.pem -CAkey keyN-1.pem
    -CAcreateserial -extensions <extension> -extfile extensions.conf -out
    certN.pem -days 365 -sha256

Note: it looks like openssl req also accepts extensions via -reqexts but there is a known bug in openssl where extensions are transferred between CSRs and X509 certs.