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• Decide on the CN (Common Name) for the application certificate. The CN must be of the form appname.app.mit.edu.
• Create a directory which will be used to for generating the certificate request.
• cd to the newly created directory.
• Execute the following command:

        openssl genrsa 1024 > appname-key.pem

    where appname matches the name the final certificate will apply to (e.g. if the application certificate CN is going to be foo.app.mit.edu, then this file would be foo-key.pem).

    appname-key.pem is the certificate's private key. Do not loose this key. Store it in a safe and secure location.