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Creating a private certificate authority

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Creating a private certificate authority

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- [Instructor] Now that we know a bit more about what Certificate Manager is, let's create a private certificate authority. From the main web console, I'm going to go ahead and search for Certificate Manager. Notice that there are two links, Certificate Manager and Private Certificate Authority. If we go to the Certificate Manager page, this is where we can create, request, and manage any public facing certificates. Note that this page also contains a link to create a private certificate authority. Clicking that link brings us to the main homepage for the private certificate authority. To get started, I go ahead and click Create a private CA. The first thing I get to specify is which mode I want to create: a general purpose mode for any validity period or a short-lived certificate. Since I've never used certificate authority before, I don't want the root CA to be short-lived, so I'm going to go ahead and specify general purpose. In the future, if I wanted to use a subordinate CA for…

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