tls-ca-manage

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Tool and Usage

Project details

Year of inception
License
MIT
Programming language
shell script
Latest release
No release found
Latest release date
Unknown

Project health

64
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Introduction

The tls-ca-manage is a certificate authority management tool written in shell script. It can be used to manage certificates for TLS/SSL configurations.

Why this tool?

Certificate management can be complicated. Getting to know all specifics of OpenSSL takes years of experience and mistakes are made easily. This tool helps to automate the steps required to manage certificates. As it uses bash, the tool is flexible and does not have many requirements.

Usage and audience

tls-ca-manage is commonly used for certificate management. Target users for this tool are system administrators.

Features

  • Command line interface

Example usage and output

Usage: ./tls-ca-manage.sh
[ --help|-h ] [ --verbosity|-v ] [ --force-delete|-f ]
[ --base-dir|-b <ssl-directory-path> ]
[ --algorithm|-a [rsa|ed25519|ecdsa|poly1305] ]
[ --message-digest|-m [sha512|sha384|sha256|sha224|sha3-256|
sha3-224|sha3-512|sha1|md5] ]
[ --keysize|-k [4096, 2048, 1024, 512, 256] ]
[ --serial|-s <num> ] # (default: 1000)
[ --group|-g <group-name> ] # (default: ssl-cert)
[ --openssl|-o <openssl-binary-filespec ] # (default: /usr/local/bin/openssl)
[ --parent-ca|-p ] [-t|--ca-type <ca-type>] [ --traditional|-T ]
< create | renew | revoke | verify | help >
<ca-name>

<ca-type>: standalone, root, intermediate, network, identity, component,
server, client, email, ocsp, timestamping, security, codesign
Default settings:
Top-level SSL directory: /etc/ssl Cipher: rsa
Digest: sha256 Keysize: 4096

Tool review and remarks

The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:

Strengths

  • + Very low number of dependencies

Weaknesses

  • - Full name of author is unknown

Installation

Supported operating systems

Tls-ca-manage is known to work on Linux.

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a certificate management tool.