ericvicenti/csr-gen

Generates OpenSSL Certificate Signing Requests in node.js

csr-gen's Issues

Private Key is not send to callback

I use Node 0.10.24 and i dont get the key in the callback.

missing a step?

Am I missing something? In order to spin-up an HTTPS server, I would do something like this:

var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('privatekey.pem').toString();
var certificate = fs.readFileSync('certificate.pem').toString();
var server = https.createServer({key: privateKey, cert: certificate});
server.listen(8000);

To generate the key, csr, and cert I would run commands like this:

openssl genrsa -out privatekey.pem 2048
openssl req -new -key privatekey.pem -out certrequest.csr -subj "/C=US/ST=California/L=San Fransisco/O=Loadtester/OU=Operations/CN=konsumer-mac.local/[email protected]"
openssl x509 -req -in certrequest.csr -signkey privatekey.pem -out certificate.pem

For a similar approach with your module:

csrgen(os.hostname(), {
    outputDir: __dirname,
    read: true,
    company: 'Loadtester',
    email: '[email protected]'
}, function(err, keys){
    if (err) throw(err);    
    var server = https.createServer({key: keys.private, cert: NOCERT});
});

This lib does only the first 2 parts of the SSL signing process: generate a private key, and generate a csr. Am I doing this wrong, or is it just missing the functionality to actually make a cert? Would it be possible to use crypto to do all this, for a 100% native approach, so openssl command-line util is not needed?

csr file is not generated

From the test snippet. The private key is generated but CSR file is undefined. Am I missing anything here?