Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) :Ĭommon Name (eg, YOUR name) :Oliver Hager Organization Name (eg, company) :Devbutze If you enter '.', the field will be left blank. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blankįor some fields there will be a default value, What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated > openssl req -new -key torrent.key -out torrent.csr I pass the recently generate private key to the request. For my purpose a self-signed certificate is sufficient.

Now, I am going to create a CSR, which I could send to a Certificate Authority (CA), but I won't. +++Ĭreate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus Here, I am going to generate a 2048-Bit strong RSA key and store into file 'torrent.key' The first step (after eventual installation of OpenSSL) is creating a private key. Much easier creation offers this webservice. In the following I describe how to create such self-signed certificate manually. If you are on Windows you may download OpenSSL here. To create such a certificate I use OpenSSL, which is usually already shipped with Linux Distributions. I do not own a SSL certificate, so I need to create one - for free. The qBittorrent client already offers the option for encrypted connection via HTTPS, but I need to provide a key and certificate. My client is protected with a password, but using only HTTP is truly no protection, as the credentials are transferred in clear text.

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