[asterisk-dev] Why? was: Add a contrib script for generating certs for TLS stuff

[Hans Witvliet]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:30 -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> On 10/21/2010 04:11 PM, Hans Witvliet wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 20:30 +0000, Terry Wilson wrote:
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> >> https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/979/
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> >> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
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> >>
> >> Summary
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> >> After suffering through yet another fun day of setting up TLS certs for asterisk, I figured I'd knock out a quick script so I don't ever have to do it again.
> > 
> > Just curious,
> > As there are about a dozen or so tools for making/maintaining
> > certificates, why create another?
> > 
> > I would rather expect to see explained how to generate certificates with
> > allready available tools...., nor re-re-re-inventing the wheel!
> 
> Yeah... the OpenVPN distribution already contains "easyssl" scripts to
> do this, and the tinyca2 tool is a very easy to use GUI wrapper for
> OpenSSL that also can be used for this purpose.
> 

And some more, depending on your needs:

     1. OpenCA,  
     2. TinyCA,
     3. CASA,
     4. PyCA,
     5. OpenXPKI,
     6. Suse's YaST,
     7. RedHat Certificate System (RHCS),
     8. Fedora's Dogtag,
     9. ejbCA,
    10. OpenSSL's cli tools,
    11. OpenVPN easy-rsa tools,
    12. Gnomint
    13. XCA
    14. flexica