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+Making SSL-Certificates
+=======================
+
+Creates keys and certificate requests via openssl.
+It tries to keep files, if there exist. But if you change one file,
+files which depend on it, will be recreated by this program.
+
+Howto
+=====
+
+All files will be replaced, if files which it depends on, are newer.
+For example, if you create the `example.key`, and you run `sslmake example.csr`,
+your CSR will be replaced be a new. But if your CSR is newer than the KEY,
+it will not replace your CSR.
+
+First Use
+---------
+
+If you creates something a first time, then you are alright here.
+Renewing and removing will follow in 'Second Use'.
+
+* Create the config:
+
+		# ./sslmake example.cnf
+
+	This will copy `/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf` to local directory.
+	Now you	edit this file and you can do next step.
+	Important are commonName_default and so on.
+	If you do not know the %.cnf, you should read a openssl-howto
+	about `openssl.cnf`.
+
+* Create the KEY:
+
+		# ./sslmake %.key
+  
+	It will create a key-file %.key with a 4096 bit strong rsa.
+
+* Create the CSR:
+
+		# ./sslmake %.csr
+  
+	This will use %.cnf as configfile and creates a key and the csr
+	if didn't exists. Everything in one step.