Certificates in practice Procedures and tools for creating, importing, and viewing certificates and keys. The OpenSSL toolThe openssl command line tool creates certificates for the configuration of secured communications.Create a root certificate authorityCreate a local root certificate authority for signing test certificates.Create a certificateCreate a server or client certificate for use with SSL/TLS, and optionally a self-signed certificate for testing.Create a certificate authority listCreate a CA list file containing the trusted certificate authorities used to verify certificates.Import a certificate into the Windows key storeImport a certificate and its private key into the Windows key store as a PKCS12 file.Import a CA into the Windows key storeImport a Certificate Authority (CA) into the Windows key store so that Windows trusts certificates signed by that CA.View a certificateView the details of a certificate using the openssl command.