Hi all. I am trying to set up SSL for the first time. I would like to use SSL for POP3 and HTTPD, but after a week of work I still have no result. I have read all the documentation I have found about mod_ssl and openssl, but I still can hardly understand how to generate and manage my certificates: I would like that someone could explaing me how to do that, basically. I find all the docs confusing myself. Note that I am not a bank and I am not running an ecommerce web server, so I am not planning to sign verisign or something like that at all. Here it is what I have been trying: xearo7:/usr/share/ssl/misc # ./CA.pl -newca xearo7:/usr/share/ssl/misc # ./CA.pl -newreq <somequestions> xearo7:/usr/share/ssl/misc # ./CA.pl -sign Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf unable to load CA private key 1570:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:662:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY Signed certificate is in newcert.pem I have configured my openssl.cnf file reading the HOWTO. I have no idea about those error messages, and I do not know if I am using the right commands to create my certificates. Help is VERY MUCH needed:-) TIA, Praise