Steps to create a nodejs script to implement https

Pre-requistes

• Install nodejs

  • $sudo apt-get update
  • $sudo apt-get install nodejs
  • $sudo apt-get install npm

• Download and install OpenSSL https://www.openssl.org/source/

• Generate the certificate and the key using the below commands

$\OpenSSL_Dir\openssl genrsa -out localhost.key 2048
$\OpenSSL_Dir\openssl req -new -x509 -key localhost.key -out localhost.cert -days 3650 -subj /CN=localhost -config "Open_SSL_Dir\openssl-0.9.8h-1-bin\share\openssl.cnf"

Steps

• $npm install
• $node app.js

Refrences

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-openssl-p12
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9497719/extract-public-private-key-from-pkcs12-file-for-later-use-in-ssh-pk-authenticati
• http://nodejs.cn/doc/node/tls.html#tls_tls_createserver_options_secureconnectionlistener
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24392571/node-js-crypto-js-pfx-header-too-long