Show HN: Caman – A self-signing certificate authority manager

https://github.com/radiac/caman

by radiac • 11 years ago

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tokenizerrr• 11 years ago

How does this compare to CA-baka?

https://github.com/SethRobertson/CA-baka

radiac2• 11 years ago

I hadn't come across this when I wrote caman; from the looks of things caman is simpler to use, but missing a couple of features - alt hostname support for SAN certificates (which I'm adding at the moment and should be up later today) and ability to use a subsidiary certificate authority.

I wrote caman because I could never remember what to type, so it has simple syntax - 4 commands, to add a new host, sign, revoke and renew; the only argument they take are the hostname. Configuration is a one-off when setting up your CA - there are two openssl config files with sensible defaults based on openssl best practice, with a few values for you to customise, and some basic templating for caman to fill out later.

radiac2• 11 years ago

I've added an experimental branch with SAN support, but I haven't had a chance to test it fully yet; any feedback would be appreciated.

curun1r• 11 years ago

Also: https://github.com/square/certstrap

raidan• 11 years ago

In the past I've used etcd-ca[0] to perform a similar function, though probably not it's original intention.

[0] https://github.com/coreos/etcd-ca

eliaspro• 11 years ago

Just playing with SaltStack's recently added x509 state for a fully autonomous/self-signed CA incl deployment to the clients.

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