To be able to create your own digitally signed certificates, you can use the open source OpenSSL toolkit. The source for this can be downloaded here. Under a windows environment, the easy way to build it with little effort is to use cygwin. Cygwin gives you a linux-like environment under windows and the setup file is downloadable here.

To build OpenSSL, the following packages will need to be installed with cygwin

- perl
- make
- gcc
- gcc-core
- diffutils

Copy the openssl package, openssl-0.9.8j.tar.gz, to your home directory, eg. C:\cygwin\home\sean

Under the cygwin environment, to extract the contents

> tar zxfv openssl-0.9.8j.tar.gz

Then to build it ..

> cd  openssl-0.9.8j

> ./config

> make

> make test

> make install