Mastering Go - Second Edition

Creating certificates

In order to be able to follow and execute the code examples of this section, you will first need to create certificates because HTTPS requires them. On a macOS Mojave machine, you will need to execute the following commands:

$ openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus
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e is 65537 (0x10001)
$ openssl ecparam -genkey -name secp384r1 -out server.key
$ openssl req -new -x509 -sha256 -key server.key -out server.crt -days 3650
  

The last command will ask you some questions that are not displayed here. It does not really matter what information you put in, which means that you are free to leave most of the answers blank. What you will ...