How to open the wizard

[owingruters]

Hi,

It's not quite clear how to start the wizard. I installed using choco, windows search then does not find it and there is no menu item nor desktop icon. I also searched the file system but did not find

[deviousasti]

You navigate to the target folder where you want your certs to be generated and type in openssl-wizard.

or just type it into explorer.

Perhaps I should add that in the Readme?

[deviousasti]

Hey @owingruters, does this answer your question?

[asheroto]

@owingruters you can also just download the EXE from the Releases page.

[Ricky-Tigg]

Hello, user right now on Windows' side and developer. Could be interesting to evaluate the product on Linux's side. Though unknown is whether it has even been tested to work properly with Wine.

[deviousasti]

It does look there are ways to run a netcore WPF app in Wine (https://ccifra.github.io/PortingWPFAppsToLinux/Overview.html), but considering the setup it takes, it might be easier to write a cross-platform version of this in Rust or something.

[Ricky-Tigg]

Highly rich featured software involving complex cryptographic functions, like are OpenSSH 9 and OpenSSL 3, are at their best when solely used in command-line. Then they are fully worth the challenging learning curve. Nevertheless there is still place for a well designed GUI aiming to serve those ones who best learn, work and understand in GUI environment. Though the ideal approach is always the best solution, which is invariably to give priority to coherence when developing a program; Free and open source desktop software is to be developed for a free and open source desktop OS –then that is nothing else but Linux-GNU.