Move Manually generating Certificate & Key section in README.md

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- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Dependencies](#dependencies)
- [Setting up BitBetter](#setting-up-bitbetter)
- [Optional: Manually generating Certificate & Key](#optional-manually-generating-certificate--key)
- [Building BitBetter](#building-bitbetter)
- [Note: Manually generating Certificate & Key](#note-manually-generating-certificate--key)
- [Updating Bitwarden and BitBetter](#updating-bitwarden-and-bitbetter)
- [Generating Signed Licenses](#generating-signed-licenses)
- [Note: Alternative Ways to Generate License](#note-alternative-ways-to-generate-license)
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git clone https://github.com/jakeswenson/BitBetter.git
```
### Optional: Manually generating Certificate & Key
If you wish to generate your self-signed cert & key manually, you can run the following commands.
```bash
cd .keys
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.cert -days 36500 -outform DER -passout pass:test
openssl x509 -inform DER -in cert.cert -out cert.pem
openssl pkcs12 -export -out cert.pfx -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem -passin pass:test -passout pass:test
```
> Note that the password here must be `test`.<sup>[1](#f1)</sup>
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## Building BitBetter
Now that you've set up your build environment, we need to specify which servers to start after the work is done.
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**The license generator will spit out a JSON-formatted license which can then be used within the Bitwarden web front-end to license your user or org!**
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### Note: Manually generating Certificate & Key
If you wish to generate your self-signed cert & key manually, you can run the following commands.
Note that you should never have to do this yourself, but can also be triggered by running the generateKeys.[sh|ps1] script.
```bash
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.cert -days 36500 -outform DER -passout pass:test
openssl x509 -inform DER -in cert.cert -out cert.pem
openssl pkcs12 -export -out cert.pfx -inkey key.pem -in cert.pem -passin pass:test -passout pass:test
```
> Note that the password here must be `test`.<sup>[2](#f1)</sup>
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# FAQ: Questions you might have.