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Since creating TLS certificates involves also creating a private key, wouldn't you want to do this on your own hardware and not trust a third-party with your key?



That depends on the intended application of those certificates. I was only thinking of local development with self-signed certificates that would never be used in production. But yes, I see your point. Some users may not realize the security risk when using an online tool like this and use it for production certificates as well.


These tools seem to work on the client side with JS as far as I can from the response time. (Check source to be sure)


It’s possible to do this client-side in the browser.




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