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SUSE Certified Engineer - Managing Encryption

In this hands-on lab, you'll be getting more familiar and experienced in using OpenSSL to create your own Certificate Authority (CA), so that you can sign your own certificate requests. You'll set up the Root Certificate Authority, generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), and then use that request to generate the end result — a server certificate. You'll then use the `gpg` command to generate and query your own GPG public and secret keys, and use that information to encrypt a data file and then decrypt it, comparing the file contents before and after.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 30m
Last updated
Clock icon Aug 24, 2025

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Set Up a Certificate Authority

    • Install the tree command
    • Set up a Certificate Authority (CA) directory structure
    • Create a Root Certificate
    • Verify the certificate details

  2. Challenge

    Create a Certificate Signing Request

    • Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
    • Supply the necessary details
    • Verify the certificate details
    • Note file locations and contents

  3. Challenge

    Generate a Server Certificate

    • Set up the certificate database
    • Generate a server certificate
    • Verify the certificate details
    • Inspect the contents of the database

  4. Challenge

    GPG Encrypt and Decrypt a Data File

    • Configure a test directory
    • Generate a GPG public/secret key pair
    • Confirm the GPG keys were generated
    • Locate the GPG files
    • Encrypt and decrypt a data file
    • Verify that the operation worked properly
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