browser_csr_generation/README.md

Browser PKCS#10 CSR generation PoC

This repository contains a small proof of concept implementation of browser based PKCS#10 certificate signing request and PKCS#12 key store generation using node-forge.

The backend is implemented in Go and utilizes openssl for the signing operations.

Running

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://git.dittberner.info/jan/browser_csr_generation.git
   

2. Get dependencies and build assets

   cd browser_csr_generation
   npm install --global gulp-cli
   npm install
   gulp
   

3. Setup the example CA and a server certificate and key

   ./setup_example_ca.sh
   openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -subj "/CN=localhost" -addext subjectAltName=DNS:localhost -newkey rsa:3072 \
     -nodes -out server.crt.pem -keyout server.key.pem
   

4. Run the Go based backend

   go run main.go
   

   Open https://localhost:8000/ in your browser.

5. Run gulp watch

   You can run a gulp watch in a second terminal window to automatically publish changes to the files in the src directory:

   gulp watch