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Create the following folder structure on your local drive to hold the various certificates in the hierarchy that we will be generating:

chariotcerts/
├── ca/
│  ├── engine/
│  ├── server/
│  └── transmission/
└── certs/
    ├── engine/
    ├── server/
    └── transmission/

When creating a certificate hierarchy, the Root CA is the highest level of authority in the certificate hierarchy, and is responsible for issuing CA certificates to lower-level CAs, such as the Server CA and Client (Engine and Transmission) CAs. When the Root CA issues a CA certificate to a lower-level CA, it signs the certificate with its private key, which allows clients to verify the authenticity of the CA certificate using the Root CA's public key.

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