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C H A P T E R 3
SSL Operations
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Certifying authorities have specific guidelines on how to answer each
of the questions. These guidelines may vary by certifying authority.
Please refer to the guidelines of the certifying authority to whom you
submit your Certificate Signing Request (CSR). Please keep the
following in mind when entering the information that will be
incorporated into your certificate request.
•
Country code: This is the two-letter ISO abbreviation for your
country (for example, US for the United States).
•
State or Province: This is the name of the state or province
where your organization’s head office is located. Please enter the
full name of the state or province. Do not abbreviate.
•
Locality: This is usually the name of the city where your
organization’s head office is located.
•
Organization: This should be the organization that owns the
domain name. The organization name (corporation, limited
partnership, university, or government agency) must be
registered with some authority at the national, state, or city level.
Use the legal name under which your organization is registered.
Please do not abbreviate your organization’s name and do not use
any of the following characters: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ?.
•
Organizational unit: This is normally the name of the
department or group that will use the certificate.
•
Common name: The common name is the “fully qualified
domain name,” (or FQDN) used for DNS lookups of your server
(for example, www.mysite.com). Browsers use this information
to identify your Web site. Some browsers will refuse to establish
a secure connection with your site if the server name does not
match the common name in the certificate. Please do not include
the protocol specifier “http://” or any port numbers or path names
in the common name. Do not use wildcard characters such as * or
?, and do not use an IP address.
•
E-mail address: This should be the e-mail address of the
administrator responsible for the certificate.
3. Export the Certificate Signing Request (CSR).