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digital-certificatepkcs#12

Free or Open Personal Digital Cerificate of Signing Documents?


I need to sign a pdf file with my own e-signature using a certificate where can i get one pfx file.


Solution

  • As thedz commented, your question is rather vague. Thawte offers free personal certificates here. Is that what you need?

    I see you updated your question. You can generate your own pfx file using OpenSSL as follows:

    # create a file containing key and self-signed certificate
    openssl req \
      -x509 -nodes -days 365 \
      -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout mycert.pem -out mycert.pem
    
    # export mycert.pem as PKCS#12 file, mycert.pfx
    openssl pkcs12 -export \
      -out mycert.pfx -in mycert.pem \
      -name "My Certificate"