Managing your certificates on your router is possible, but might be not a good idea regarding security. You also might want to have a graphical frontend for easy creating and managing your keys and certs. In this chapter you will find information on how to do this all with tinyca.

Tinyca is a GTK based Frontend for creating and maintaining certificates with openssl. It is written in perl, to be able to use it, you need a Unix Machine. If you don't have one, download yourself a Linux Live CD (e.g. Knoppix) and use a USB Stick to save your certs and keys.

This Documentation assumes that you already have a copy of tinyca installed. If your distribution does not contain a version of tinyca, get it from the tinyca homepage.