Create Certificates (.CER & .PFX)

Certificates provide better Authentication than Passwords.   Certificates has to be procured from Signing authorities & will be installed with application through Deployment Team.

Note However it is better for Developer to know all these – if anything screwed up can help back them.

Development Certificates

For development purposes we can use IIS Certificates.

Step 1: Create Certificate

Go to IIS > Server Certificates > Create Self-signed Certificate

You will get the new certificate listed as below.

Step 2: Export to .CER Format

Double-click on the certificate, Go to Details tab & Click Copy to File button.

Continue the wizard & You will get a .CER file output.

Step 3: Export to .PFX Format

Now right click on the item & click Export option.

Enter the Password & after export you will get a .PFX certificate.

Outputs

You can go the folder & see 2 files are created.

Summary

In this post we have seen how to create a certificate, export as .CER & .PFX file.