mkcert is a simple tool for making locally-trusted development certificates. It requires no configuration. Using certificates from real certificate authorities (CAs) for development can be dangerous or impossible (for hosts like example.test, localhost or 127.0.0.1), but self-signed certificates cause trust errors. Managing your own CA is the best solution, but usually involves arcane commands, specialized knowledge and manual steps. mkcert automatically creates and installs a local CA in the system root store, and generates locally-trusted certificates. mkcert does not automatically configure servers to use the certificates, though, that's up to you. The CA certificate and its key are stored in an application data folder in the user's home. You usually don't have to worry about it, as the installation is automated, but the location is printed by mkcert -CAROOT.

Features

  • Supports macOS system store
  • Supports Windows system store
  • Supports Linux variants
  • Customize the output paths
  • Generate a certificate for client authentication
  • Generate a certificate with an ECDSA key
  • Generate a certificate based on the supplied CSR

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License

BSD License

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Go

Related Categories

Go Security Software, Go Software Development Software

Registered

2022-02-16