node.js - Can nodejs generate SSL certificates?

Question

I'm writing a proxy support HTTPS-HTTPS proxy. Before i use Python as the main programming language, but i'm interested in node.js now, so i prepare to migrate.

The largest problem i'm facing is that i don't know how to generate CA and other server certificates in node.js. In Python, there is pyOpenSSL which is awesome. I don't find something similar in node.js until now.

Maybe i should use openssl-fork method? But how to handle the interactive operation in openssl.

Thank you.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9519707/can-nodejs-generate-ssl-certificates

Answer 1

In case somebody does want to programatically create CSRs from node.js, I have created a nodejs module which uses openssl to create a private key and a CSR.

Edit: Use pem instead. It is much more complete and probably more reliable.

Edit2: Actually, pem is also just a simple wrapper over openssh. For a pure js implementation, look into forge