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I am at a loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular did not recognize it. This was couple weeks ago, so I am hazy on the details.

Background: I am aware that a self-signed certificate does not really mean much. But at my university people on Windows routinely sign PDFs with Adobe with meaningless certificates, and I want to be able to do the same. So what matters here is not data security, but being able to do what the local bureaucrats accept.

Edit: Following Bib's suggestion in the comments, I installed XCA, created a new certificate database, created a password for that database, created a private key that is good only for signing, exported the key as .p12 file and installed it in Firefox (the default key location for Okular). Now it works on Okular like intended.

I am at a loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular did not recognize it. This was couple weeks ago, so I am hazy on the details.

Background: I am aware that a self-signed certificate does not really mean much. But at my university people on Windows routinely sign PDFs with Adobe with meaningless certificates, and I want to be able to do the same. So what matters here is not data security, but being able to do what the local bureaucrats accept.

I am at loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular did not recognize it. This was couple weeks ago, so I am hazy on the details.

Background: I am aware that a self-signed certificate does not really mean much. But at my university people on Windows routinely sign PDFs with Adobe with meaningless certificates, and I want to be able to do the same. So what matters here is not data security, but being able to do what the local bureaucrats accept.

Edit: Following Bib's suggestion in the comments, I installed XCA, created a new certificate database, created a password for that database, created a private key that is good only for signing, exported the key as .p12 file and installed it in Firefox (the default key location for Okular). Now it works on Okular like intended.

I am at a loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular did not recognize it. This was couple weeks ago, so I am hazy on the details.

Background: I am aware that a self-signed certificate does not really mean much. But at my university people on Windows routinely sign PDFs with Adobe with meaningless certificates, and I want to be able to do the same. So what matters here is not data security, but being able to do what the local bureaucrats accept.

Edit: Following Bib's suggestion in the comments, I installed XCA, created a new certificate database, created a password for that database, created a private key that is good only for signing, exported the key as .p12 file and installed it in Firefox (the default key location for Okular). Now it works on Okular like intended.

I am at loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular did not recognize it. This was couple weeks ago, so I am hazy on the details.

Background: I am aware that a self-signed certificate does not really mean much. But at my university people on Windows routinely sign PDFs with Adobe with meaningless certificates, and I want to be able to do the same. So what matters here is not data security, but being able to do what the local bureaucrats accept.

I am at loss. I want to create a self-signed certificate to sign PDFs with Okular. I have not found any step-by-step directions that work. I tried creating and installing a certificate, but Okular did not recognize it. This was couple weeks ago, so I am hazy on the details.

Background: I am aware that a self-signed certificate does not really mean much. But at my university people on Windows routinely sign PDFs with Adobe with meaningless certificates, and I want to be able to do the same. So what matters here is not data security, but being able to do what the local bureaucrats accept.

Edit: Following Bib's suggestion in the comments, I installed XCA, created a new certificate database, created a password for that database, created a private key that is good only for signing, exported the key as .p12 file and installed it in Firefox (the default key location for Okular). Now it works on Okular like intended.