This article explains nicely how to make a self-signed SSL certificate, for Apache for instance:
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 2048 openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr cp server.key server.key.org openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key # remove passphrase from key openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
However, later I found this to generate a CSR and key:
openssl req -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout bla.key -out bla.csr

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