configuring-certificate-authority-with-openssl

configuring-certificate-authority-with-openssl is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 97 tokens per session (788 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to creating a two-level certificate authority with OpenSSL and Python's cryptography library. A certificate authority is a trusted service that issues, signs, and revokes digital certificates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create root and intermediate authorities, issue server and client certificates, configure revocation lists and OCSP status responders, and manage certificate policies.
Why use it?
It helps teams establish internal trust for services and users while keeping certificate policies, revocation, and status checking organized. The two-level setup separates the offline root authority from the issuing authority.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create root and intermediate authorities, issue server and client certificates, configure revocation lists and OCSP status responders, and manage certificate policies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/configuring-certificate-authority-with-openssl
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill configuring-certificate-authority-with-openssl
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 788 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00097 $0.00788
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00394
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00158
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00079

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5f90b9d36948, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configuring-certificate-authority-with-openssl scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/agent.py, scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

cyber-security/ctf/configuring-certificate-authority-with-openssl/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configuring Certificate Authority with OpenSSL

Overview

A Certificate Authority (CA) is the trust anchor in a PKI hierarchy, responsible for issuing, signing, and revoking digital certificates. This skill covers building a two-tier CA hierarchy (Root CA + Intermediate CA) using OpenSSL and the Python cryptography library, including CRL distribution, OCSP responder configuration, and certificate policy management.

When to Use

  • When deploying or configuring configuring certificate authority with openssl capabilities in your environment
  • When establishing security controls aligned to compliance requirements
  • When building or improving security architecture for this domain
  • When conducting security assessments that require this implementation

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with cryptography concepts and tools
  • Access to a test or lab environment for safe execution
  • Python 3.8+ with required dependencies installed
  • Appropriate authorization for any testing activities

Objectives

  • Create a Root CA with self-signed certificate
  • Create an Intermediate CA signed by the Root CA
  • Issue server and client certificates from the Intermediate CA
  • Configure Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs)
  • Implement certificate policies and constraints
  • Build a complete PKI hierarchy programmatically

Key Concepts

CA Hierarchy

Root CA (offline, air-gapped)
  |
  +-- Intermediate CA (online, operational)
        |
        +-- Server Certificates
        +-- Client Certificates
        +-- Code Signing Certificates

Certificate Extensions

Extension Purpose Critical
basicConstraints CA:TRUE/FALSE, pathLenConstraint Yes
keyUsage keyCertSign, cRLSign, digitalSignature Yes
extendedKeyUsage serverAuth, clientAuth, codeSigning No
subjectKeyIdentifier Hash of public key No
authorityKeyIdentifier Issuer's key identifier No
crlDistributionPoints URL to CRL No
authorityInfoAccess OCSP responder URL No

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 104 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 5f90b9d36948

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configuring-certificate-authority-with-openssl is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 788 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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