diff --git a/apps/CA.pl b/apps/CA.pl
new file mode 100755
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+++ b/apps/CA.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+#
+# CA - wrapper around ca to make it easier to use ... basically ca requires
+#      some setup stuff to be done before you can use it and this makes
+#      things easier between now and when Eric is convinced to fix it :-)
+#
+# CA -newca ... will setup the right stuff
+# CA -newreq ... will generate a certificate request 
+# CA -sign ... will sign the generated request and output 
+#
+# At the end of that grab newreq.pem and newcert.pem (one has the key 
+# and the other the certificate) and cat them together and that is what
+# you want/need ... I'll make even this a little cleaner later.
+#
+#
+# 12-Jan-96 tjh    Added more things ... including CA -signcert which
+#                  converts a certificate to a request and then signs it.
+# 10-Jan-96 eay    Fixed a few more bugs and added the SSLEAY_CONFIG
+#		   environment variable so this can be driven from
+#		   a script.
+# 25-Jul-96 eay    Cleaned up filenames some more.
+# 11-Jun-96 eay    Fixed a few filename missmatches.
+# 03-May-96 eay    Modified to use 'ssleay cmd' instead of 'cmd'.
+# 18-Apr-96 tjh    Original hacking
+#
+# Tim Hudson
+# tjh@cryptsoft.com
+#
+
+# 27-Apr-98 snh    Translation into perl, fix existing CA bug.
+#
+#
+# Steve Henson
+# shenson@bigfoot.com
+
+# default ssleay.cnf file has setup as per the following
+# demoCA ... where everything is stored
+
+$DAYS="-days 365";
+$REQ="ssleay req $SSLEAY_CONFIG";
+$CA="ssleay ca $SSLEAY_CONFIG";
+$VERIFY="ssleay verify";
+$X509="ssleay x509";
+
+$CATOP="./demoCA";
+$CAKEY="cakey.pem";
+$CACERT="cacert.pem";
+
+$DIRMODE = 0777;
+
+$RET = 0;
+
+foreach (@ARGV) {
+	if ( /^(-\?|-h|-help)$/ ) {
+	    print STDERR "usage: CA -newcert|-newreq|-newca|-sign|-verify\n";
+	    exit 0;
+	} elsif (/^-newcert$/) {
+	    # create a certificate
+	    system ("$REQ -new -x509 -keyout newreq.pem -out newreq.pem $DAYS");
+	    $RET=$?;
+	    print "Certificate (and private key) is in newreq.pem\n"
+	} elsif (/^-newreq$/) {
+	    # create a certificate request
+	    system ("$REQ -new -keyout newreq.pem -out newreq.pem $DAYS");
+	    $RET=$?;
+	    print "Request (and private key) is in newreq.pem\n";
+	} elsif (/^-newca$/) {
+		# if explictly asked for or it doesn't exist then setup the
+		# directory structure that Eric likes to manage things 
+	    $NEW="1";
+	    if ( "$NEW" || ! -f ${CATOP}/serial ) {
+		# create the directory hierarchy
+		mkdir $CATOP, $DIRMODE;
+		mkdir "${CATOP}/certs", $DIRMODE;
+		mkdir "${CATOP}/crl", $DIRMODE ;
+		mkdir "${CATOP}/newcerts", $DIRMODE;
+		mkdir "${CATOP}/private", $DIRMODE;
+		open OUT, ">${CATOP}/serial";
+		print OUT "01\n";
+		close OUT;
+		open OUT, ">${CATOP}/index.txt";
+		close OUT;
+	    }
+	    if ( ! -f "${CATOP}/private/$CAKEY" ) {
+		print "CA certificate filename (or enter to create)\n";
+		$FILE = <STDIN>;
+
+		chop $FILE;
+
+		# ask user for existing CA certificate
+		if ($FILE) {
+		    cp_pem($FILE,"${CATOP}/private/$CAKEY", "PRIVATE");
+		    cp_pem($FILE,"${CATOP}/$CACERT", "CERTIFICATE");
+		    $RET=$?;
+		} else {
+		    print "Making CA certificate ...\n";
+		    system ("$REQ -new -x509 -keyout " .
+			"${CATOP}/private/$CAKEY -out ${CATOP}/$CACERT $DAYS");
+		    $RET=$?;
+		}
+	    }
+	} elsif (/^-xsign$/) {
+	    system ("$CA -policy policy_anything -infiles newreq.pem");
+	    $RET=$?;
+	} elsif (/^(-sign|-signreq)$/) {
+	    system ("$CA -policy policy_anything -out newcert.pem " .
+							"-infiles newreq.pem");
+	    $RET=$?;
+	    print "Signed certificate is in newcert.pem\n";
+	} elsif (/^-signcert$/) {
+	    system ("$X509 -x509toreq -in newreq.pem -signkey newreq.pem " .
+								"-out tmp.pem");
+	    system ("$CA -policy policy_anything -out newcert.pem " .
+							"-infiles tmp.pem");
+	    $RET = $?;
+	    print "Signed certificate is in newcert.pem\n";
+	} elsif (/^-verify$/) {
+	    if (shift) {
+		foreach $j (@ARGV) {
+		    system ("$VERIFY -CAfile $CATOP/$CACERT $j");
+		    $RET=$? if ($? != 0);
+		}
+		exit $RET;
+	    } else {
+		    system ("$VERIFY -CAfile $CATOP/$CACERT newcert.pem");
+		    $RET=$?;
+	    	    exit 0;
+	    }
+	} else {
+	    print STDERR "Unknown arg $_\n";
+	    print STDERR "usage: CA -newcert|-newreq|-newca|-sign|-verify\n";
+	    exit 1;
+	}
+}
+
+exit $RET;
+
+sub cp_pem {
+my ($infile, $outfile, $bound) = @_;
+open IN, $infile;
+open OUT, ">$outfile";
+my $flag = 0;
+while (<IN>) {
+	$flag = 1 if (/^-----BEGIN.*$bound/) ;
+	print OUT $_ if ($flag);
+	if (/^-----END.*$bound/) {
+		close IN;
+		close OUT;
+		return;
+	}
+}
+}
+
diff --git a/apps/Makefile.ssl b/apps/Makefile.ssl
index 1cace40ab7..94aa149a3f 100644
--- a/apps/Makefile.ssl
+++ b/apps/Makefile.ssl
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ LIBSSL=-L.. -lssl
 
 SSLEAY= ssleay
 
-SCRIPTS=CA.sh der_chop
+SCRIPTS=CA.sh der_chop CA.pl
 
 EXE= $(SSLEAY)