Getting Chrome to accept self-signed localhost certificate

Question

I have created a self-signed SSL certificate for the localhost CN. Firefox accepts this certificate after initially complaining about it, as expected. Chrome and IE, however

Answer 1

WINDOWS JUN/2017 Windows Server 2012

I followed @Brad Parks answer. On Windows you should import rootCA.pem in Trusted Root Certificates Authorities store.

I did the following steps:

openssl genrsa -out rootCA.key 4096
openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key rootCA.key -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -days 1024 -out rootCA.pem
openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -nodes -keyout device.key -out device.csr
openssl x509 -req -in device.csr -CA rootCA.pem -CAkey rootCA.key -CAcreateserial -out device.crt -days 2000 -sha256 -extfile v3.ext

Where v3.ext is:

authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid,issuer
basicConstraints=CA:FALSE
keyUsage = digitalSignature, nonRepudiation, keyEncipherment, dataEncipherment
subjectAltName = @alt_names

[alt_names]
DNS.1 = localhost
IP.1 = 192.168.0.2
IP.2 = 127.0.0.1

Then, in my case I have a self hosted web app, so I need to bind certificate with IP address and port, certificate should be on MY store with private key information, so I exported to pfx format.

openssl pkcs12 -export -out device.pfx -inkey device.key -in device.crt

With mmc console (File/Add or Remove Snap-ins/Certificates/Add/Computert Account/LocalComputer/OK) I imported pfx file in Personal store.

Later I used this command to bind certificate (you could also use HttpConfig tool):

netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:12345 certhash=b02de34cfe609bf14efd5c2b9be72a6cb6d6fe54 appid={BAD76723-BF4D-497F-A8FE-F0E28D3052F4}

certhash=Certificate Thumprint

appid=GUID (your choice)

First I tried to import the certificate "device.crt" on Trusted Root Certificates Authorities in different ways but I'm still getting same error:

But I realized that I should import certificate of root authority not certificate for domain. So I used mmc console (File/Add or Remove Snap-ins/Certificates/Add/Computert Account/LocalComputer/OK) I imported rootCA.pem in Trusted Root Certificates Authorities store.

Restart Chrome and et voilà it works.

With localhost:

Or with IP address:

The only thing I could not achieve is that, it has obsolete cipher (red square on picture). Help is appreciated on this point.

With makecert it is not possible add SAN information. With New-SelfSignedCertificate (Powershell) you could add SAN information, it also works.