A pem file for TLS testing using a golang server

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My domain is: localhost

I ran this command: openssl req -x509 -out localhost.crt -keyout localhost.key
-newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256
-subj ‘/CN=localhost’ -extensions EXT -config ./ssl-config

Where ssl-config had the following …
[dn]
CN=localhost
[req]
distinguished_name = dn
[EXT]
subjectAltName=DNS:localhost
keyUsage=digitalSignature
extendedKeyUsage=serverAuth

This was based on your instructions … https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/

N.B. The openssl command on that page is broken … I think it’s deep bash magic, but I think I worked out what it was intended to do.

It produced this output:

localhost.crt and localhost.key created as expected.

My web server is (include version): I’m using the go http package … the server works fine for http … but I need https when I deploy the code. The http go server (for TLS) expects a pem file, not a crt file (http.ServeAndListenTLS).

How do I make a .pem file from that .crt file?

Many thanks …

Cheers,
Geoff Russell

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.04.06 TLS

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The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):

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They're both PEM. It's just:

err := http.ListenAndServeTLS(":443", "localhost.crt", "localhost.key", nil)
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Indeed, OpenSSL defaults to PEM.

No, it's not:

osiris@erazer tmp $ ls -l localhost.*
ls: cannot access 'localhost.*': No such file or directory
osiris@erazer tmp $ openssl req -x509 -out localhost.crt -keyout localhost.key   -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256   -subj '/CN=localhost' -extensions EXT -config <( \
   printf "[dn]\nCN=localhost\n[req]\ndistinguished_name = dn\n[EXT]\nsubjectAltName=DNS:localhost\nkeyUsage=digitalSignature\nextendedKeyUsage=serverAuth")
Generating a RSA private key
....+++++
................+++++
writing new private key to 'localhost.key'
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osiris@erazer tmp $ ls -l localhost.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 osiris osiris 1078 Aug 21 17:44 localhost.crt
-rw------- 1 osiris osiris 1704 Aug 21 17:44 localhost.key
osiris@erazer tmp $
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