# Overview

easy-rsa is a CLI utility to build and manage a PKI CA. In laymen's terms,
this means to create a root certificate authority, and request and sign 
certificates, including sub-CAs and certificate revocation lists (CRL).

# Downloads

If you are looking for release downloads, please see the releases section on
GitHub. Releases are also available as source checkouts using named tags.

# Documentation

For 3.x project documentation and usage, see the [README.quickstart.md](README.quickstart.md) file or
the more detailed docs under the doc/ directory. The .md files are in Markdown
format and can be converted to html files as desired for release packages, or
read as-is in plaintext.

# Getting help using easy-rsa

Currently, Easy-RSA development co-exists with OpenVPN even though they are
separate projects. The following resources are good places as of this writing to
seek help using Easy-RSA:

The [openvpn-users mailing list](https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users)
is a good place to post usage or help questions.

You can also try IRC at Freenode/#openvpn

# Branch structure

The easy-rsa master branch is currently tracking development for the 3.x release
cycle. The prior 2.x and 1.x versions are available as release branches for
tracking and possible back-porting of relevant fixes. Branch layout is:

    master <- 3.x, at present
    release/2.x
    release/1.x

LICENSING info for 3.x is in the [COPYING.md](COPYING.md) file