Using your SSL Certificate with µTorrent Server

Paolo Montalto
2 min readApr 6, 2022

Here’s how I managed to secure my µTorrent Server installation with my domain’s SSL certificate.

First of all we have to say that µTorrent Server runs on a self generated SSL certificate which is stored along with its private key in a file called servercert.dat whose content is like the following

d10:.fileguard40:B3ED2864EF05D80D720CB19750F1C9ACD360792B4:cert1775: — — -BEGIN CERTIFICATE — — -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— — -END CERTIFICATE — — -
— — -BEGIN PRIVATE KEY — — -
MIICdgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCAmAwggJcAgEAAoGBAL9uEg7F5g6yhJJq
JFrOPH4P6+EZ69JqkSqDsE/qrmv7KX/JxTNg+ie/43jrs5CSN9V9nfHX7XPON/D6
0njBV2AncUf00oCslMO4i1BSK4vDQxZbDf5ofFhOm1yb9XTgDMIG9wCys/+oOvsR
JXWgxK6TMdGmryJTRmE5druxY8VtAgMBAAECgYBExU5HcGENtqRZ1TfqR10EDMQ4…

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Paolo Montalto

Android Engineer, freelance, mobile developer, software craftsman, guitar strummer, husband, father, humble.