Tutorials, Howtos, and other Documents
On this page you will find a number of tutorials and howtos to help you with CAcert and many other security related topics.
User Tutorials
How to import the CAcert Root Certificates to Windows systems
How to script the system-wide import of the CAcert Root Certs on MacOSX
How to install a CAcert certificate in Plesk picture links do not work
How to create a client certificate in Windows (including PKCS12 backup) with the XCA utility
How to create a client certificate in Windows (including PKCS12 backup) with MMC Certificates module
How to create a server certificate in Windows (including PKCS12 backup)
How to renew a certificate in Windows
How to replace MD-5 signed CAcert root with the SHA256 signed CAcert root after 20161231
How to configure MS Exchange Server 2010 with a server certificate
How to digitally sign, and add time stamp to, PDF documents in Adobe Reader
- How to digitally sign a MS Office Word 2013 document: You need the signing certificate!
Tutorials from riseup.net for installing the CACert Root Certificate in Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, IE Mac, IE Windows, Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, Apple Mail, Outlook Windows, Outlook Mac.
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HowTo create SAN certificates for use with Microsoft Exchange
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Technical Tutorials
OpenWRT+OpenVPN Tutorial on how to turn a WRT54G into an OpenVPN client and/or server to secure your wifi traffic properly
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Misc and Todo
Root Certificate distribution through ActiveDirectory (to be linked with Alaric howto )
SVN Doc Repository - A collection of CAcert documents