Chapter 3 Authentication for FortiOS 5.0 : Certificate-based authentication : Example — Generate an SSL certificate in OpenSSL
  
Example — Generate an SSL certificate in OpenSSL
This example explains how to generate a CA signed SSL certificate using OpenSSL on MS Windows. OpenSSL is available for Linux and Mac OS as well, however their terminology will vary slightly from what is presented here.
This example includes:
Assumptions
Generating a CA signed SSL certificate
Generating a self-signed SSL certificate
Import the SSL certificate into FortiOS