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Description of problem:
When writing tests, the customer has to pipe in a series of nearly indecipherable numbers to certutil's stdin to create a cert with a basic constraints extension (see tests/chains/chains.sh).

The proposal is to add the following parameters:

    --ca                    : sets the CA constraint to true
    --pathLenConstraint <x> : sets the path length constraint
    --invalid               : do not prohibit the creation of
                              a syntactically-valid but
                              semantically-invalid certificate.

The --invalid flag would be used to allow the creation of invalid certificates in order to test NSS's handling of such invalid certificates.


How reproducible:
Always


Additional info:
There was an upstream BZ opened for this request, but the functionality was not implemented:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671088