title: Self Signed Certificate in Windows without makecert?
body: <p>We have a shrink wrap type Windows server application where we need to create a self signed certificate on the server to be used by some WCF web services.  From our searches on the web, it appears that the makecert utility in the PlatformSDK from Microsoft cannot be distributed with our application, so we're looking for alternatives.  </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to use OpenSSL to create a certificate and get it into the Windows LocalMachine certificate store?  Or, alternatively is it straight forward to insert the certificate into the store in a .NET application and should we just create the certificate file with openssl?  Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.  </p>