What is a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)?
Certificate signing request (also CSR or certification request) is a message sent from an applicant to a certificate authority in order to apply for a digital identity certificate.
It contains information that will be included in your certificate such as:
- Organization name
- Common name (domain name)
- Location
- Country
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Here is an example of CSR generation:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
MIIWtjCCAR8CAQAwdjELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxDTALBgNVBAgTBFV0YWgxDzANBgNV
BAcTBkxpbmRvbjEVMBMGA1UEChMMRGlnaUN123QgSW5jMREwDwYDVQQLEwhEaWdp
Q2VydDEdMBsGA1UEAxMUZXhhbXBsZS5kaWdpY2VydC5jb20wg11wDQYJKoZIhvcN
AQEBBQAD3f32MIGJAo24ALxG0R0gERgRkL2vTqcZfbCwlWBGVRjgaeJMaFCPQGri
/DVvTeF9Yi8YZql54vewJIpLFwTDZcB+tRkcw+dFUrQa82cTjToJ+8yBDO2uwfUi
iUfqbnGW1XpFA9rlaKBaakmGHasFIDprBFA6EH6nvJk122b302SYrtnNM68VNX3
AgMBAAGgADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFgAOBgQAphzI6acorHL3voml27jXheyvXnEuT
v6xEUQHui1hEm1KG2ZNzGhZ4idznrHz+qzqQ962Nk7JATnEECO7DZ6xEQr5ycLcv
MHzJgd0BkFYy2x0zvv6gVV6S9hu0b5NYCfW9q6lESMNcnjy0k/Dny/gcWPxDEUE8
UjzGrVMUlZZcjA==
-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
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