Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: ca_kit
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: Certificate-authority test harness.
Home-page: https://github.com/dsoprea/CaKit
Author: Dustin Oprea
Author-email: myselfasunder@gmail.com
License: GPL 2
Description: --------
        Overview
        --------
        
        The purpose of this tiny project is just to package the logic needed to:
        
        - Build a CA certificates
        - Build a regular certificate
        - Sign the regular certificate with the CA certificate
        - Verify that the regular certificate is signed with the CA certificate
        
        I find that I often need to do this, and/or need to do this as part of other 
        projects to prove a design. This project assumes some defaults, and makes it 
        ridiculously easy to establish a CA and build certificates. You can pass
        parameters to change the name of the output files, and the path that they are
        written to.
        
        The include scripts are largely Python. So, for those who'd like a quick 
        tutorial on how to do these tasks via Python, they might also use this project
        as a roadmap.
        
        
        -------
        Scripts
        -------
        
        This project encapsulates four executable scripts, three of them Python:
        
        ============   =======================================================
        Name           Description
        ============   =======================================================
        ck_create_ca   Create CA keys and certificate
        ck_create      Create normal keys
        ck_sign        Create a signed certificate using the CA identity
        ck_verify_ca   Verify that the signed certificate was issued by the CA
        ============   =======================================================
        
        The Python scripts use M2Crypto to manipulate the keys/certificates.
        
        
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        Installation
        ------------
        
        This project can not be installed. Clone it from the GitHub project, and run 
        the following to install the dependencies::
        
           $ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
        
        
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        Usage
        -----
        
        To specify a directory, use the "-o" parameter. If none is given, you will be 
        prompted to confirm.
        
        1. Create the CA::
        
              $ ck_create_ca
              Please confirm output directory []: output
        
           This generates:
        
           - *ca.crt.pem*
           - *ca.csr.pem*
           - *ca.key.pem*
           - *ca.public.pem*
        
        2. Create the normal keys::
        
              $ ck_create
              Please confirm output directory []: output
        
           This generates:
        
           - *normal.csr.pem*
           - *normal.key.pem*
           - *normal.public.pem*
        
        3. Sign the identity::
        
              $ ck_sign
              Please confirm output directory []: output
        
           This generates:
        
           - *normal.crt.pem*
        
        4. You can also verify that the identity was signed by our CA::
        
              $ ck_verify_ca
              Please confirm input directory []: output
              Verified.
        
Keywords: ssl openssl ca certificate
Platform: UNKNOWN
