jdelic / x509cahelpers

Python helpers to describe a CA tree and certificates.

X.509 CA helpers

This project provides an easy structure of Python classes and functions to describe a tree of certificate authorities and certificates as its leafs. This is useful to quickly generate testing infrastructure with root CAs that can be installed in common browsers. The end result is a Python script that uses this library that creates a tree of files and folders in a destination folder representing the described infrastructure.

To implement this in such a way that it can be later extended using openssl, this project relies on invoking the openssl command-line binary with a number of provided configuration templates.

My personal use-case is to generate unique CAs and certificates for my personal salt configuration.

# TODO: fill this with actual examples once the code is written ;)