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Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

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A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a request sent to a CA in order to authenticate the credentials
contained within the certificate.

Note

We recommend that the Root Certificate from the CA be installed on your computer before creating the
CSR.

a

Click Create CSR.

b

Enter a Common Name and your information, such as Organization.
Your company details are required so that a CA can confirm your identity and attest to the outside world.

Note

• The length of the Common Name can be up to 64 characters. The Common Name is required.
• A warning will pop-up if you enter a different name in the URL than the Common Name that was used for

the certificate.

• The length of the Organization, the Organization Unit, the City/Locality and the State/Province can be

up to 64 characters.

• The Country/Region should be an ISO 3166 country code composed of two characters.
• If you are configuring X.509v3 certificate extension, choose the Configure extended partition check box

and then choose Auto (Register IPv4) or Manual.