Tired of typing your SSL password on boot of your webserver? You can decrypt it if you're certain it's safe:
# openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.unsecure
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Use these commands to generate a self-signed SSL certificate (e.g. for Apache):
# openssl genrsa 1024 > server.key # openssl req -new -key server.key -x509 -days 90 -out server.crt
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