title: openssl and PKCS12
body: <p>jww's answer to the question "How do you sign a Certificate Signing Request with your Certification Authority?" <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21297139/how-do-you-sign-a-certificate-signing-request-with-your-certification-authority/21340898#21340898">Original question</a> was very useful to me and I created my own CA key and cert and used it to sign a server cert.</p>
  
  <p>I have a linux server that I want to reach from an MS Edge browser.  I found that the Microsoft Management Console application would not accept the .pem format certs so I converted them into .p12 (PKCS12) format and combined them in a single file also using material that I found on the stackoverflow site.  (file attached)</p>
  
  <p>My question is does openssl create pkcs12 certs natively or is the conversion stage necessary?</p>