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Anton Kuryan
Anton Kuryan

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Trusted self-signed certificate on local Windows machine

This is cross-post from my blog.

I created powershell script to automate generation of locally trusted self-signed certificate. It will create root certificate, to be used as signing certificate for future generation of other certificates.

Please, see script at my repository here. I hope it will help.

After certificates have been generated - you can share them with your developers: export as PFX certificate for your domain, and export as CER file certificate from LocalMachine/Root which is issue to "DONOTTRUST-LocalSigningCertificate". Your fellow developer shall import CER file (certificate without key) to "LocalMachine/Root", PFX - to "LocalMachine/My" and can work with self-signed locally trusted certificate happily (NOTE: you could not use this certificate in open, as it would not be trusted by default - that's only for development purposes to save time and money)

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