ssl-keygen is a wrapper for creating SSL certs.

Installation

$ npm install ssl-keygen

Usage

ssl-keygen is a utility wrapper for creating SSL keys and certs using OpenSSL.

API

The module exports the following functions and objects

• KeyGen: *Handle to the ssl-keygen constructor
• createKeyGen(options): *function returning a new ssl-keygen with specified options

KeyGen Options

The following options are available:

• log: *Bunyan logger or boolean, will default to false
• root: *Project root folder will default to process.cwd()
• folder: *The certs folder name default to 'certs'
• size: *The size used when creating keys, default 4096
• subj: *The subj used when creating certificate requests

Subj default:

{
  C:'EE',
  ST:'Harjumaa',
  L:'Tallinn',
  O:'Example',
  OU:'Unit',
  emailAddress:'admin@email.address'
}

KeyGen API

The following functions are available on the KeyGen object

createCA

Function for creating a self signed CA

• @param {String} name certificate name
• @param {Boolean} [force=false] whether to force the creation
• @param {Function} callback

createCert

Function for creating a cert from a key file

• @param {String} name name of key
• @param {Object} [ca=false] ca information, if none given a CA cert will be created
• @param {Boolean} [force=false] whether to force the creation
• @param {Function} callback

createKey

Function for creating a RSA key

• @param {String} name name of key
• @param {Boolean} [force=false] whether to force the creation
• @param {Function} callback

createSelfSigned

Function for creating a self signed keypair

• @param {String} name certificate name
• @param {Object} ca object containing ca information
• @param {Boolean} [force=false] force creation of keys?
• @param {Function} callback

createSignRequest

Function for creating a certificate signing request

• @param {String} name name of key
• @param {Function} callback

signCA

Function for creating a CA cert from key

• @param {String} name name of key
• @param {Boolean} [force=false] whether to force the creation
• @param {Function} callback

signRequest

Function for signing a certificate signing request

• @param {String} name name of key
• @param {Object} ca ca information
• @param {Boolean} [force=false] whether to force the creation
• @param {Function} callback

_keyPair

Utility function returning an object containing absolute paths to keyfiles

• @param {String} name name of key
• @param {Boolean} [csr=false] wheter to return csr path @return {Object}

_subject

Function returning the -subj part of openssl commands

• @param {String} name name of the certificate @return {String}

_sign

Function for creating a cert from key by either signing a request or key

• @param {String} name name of key
• @param {Object} [ca=false] ca information, if none given a CA cert will be created
• @param {Boolean} [force=false] whether to force the creation
• @param {Function} callback

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2012 Karl Düüna

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