https://github.com/moreati/minimumviablecertificate
How small can a SSL/TLS certificate be, and still be useful?
https://github.com/moreati/minimumviablecertificate
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How small can a SSL/TLS certificate be, and still be useful?
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/moreati/minimumviablecertificate
- Owner: moreati
- Created: 2017-03-02T23:02:15.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-03-03T00:20:09.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-18T07:47:40.473Z (7 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 12.7 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Minimum Viable Certificate
I was curious how small an SSL certificate could be made, and still be useful.
```
$ ./mvc.sh
OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to 'localhost-rsa-2048.key'
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Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to 'localhost-rsa-4096.key'
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Generating a 256 bit EC private key
writing new private key to 'localhost-ec-prime256v1.key'
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Generating a 384 bit EC private key
writing new private key to 'localhost-ec-secp384r1.key'
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Generating a 521 bit EC private key
writing new private key to 'localhost-ec-secp521r1.key'
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```
```
$ ls -og localhost-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 551 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-prime256v1.der
-rw-r--r-- 1 241 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-prime256v1.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 802 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-prime256v1.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 612 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-secp384r1.der
-rw-r--r-- 1 306 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-secp384r1.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 883 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-secp384r1.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 686 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-secp521r1.der
-rw-r--r-- 1 384 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-secp521r1.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 985 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-ec-secp521r1.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 947 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-rsa-2048.der
-rw-r--r-- 1 1704 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-rsa-2048.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 1338 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-rsa-2048.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 1459 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-rsa-4096.der
-rw-r--r-- 1 3268 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-rsa-4096.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 2033 Mar 3 00:15 localhost-rsa-4096.pem
```