I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4766743 Rewrote it from scratch in Go. The entire thing is a single binary with no external dependencies: 1. Certificate generation uses Go's crypto/x509 (no OpenSSL) 2. Certificates are generated in memory and streamed directly — nothing is stored on the server 3. RSA 2048/4096 and ECDSA P-256/P-384 4. Subject Alternative Names…
I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com launched on April 2, 2026 with 9 votes, #1,315 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4766743 Rewrote it from scratch in Go. The entire thing is a single…
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