From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
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Certificate signing request (CSR)
From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
Certificate signing request (CSR)
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we will learn to install an SSL certificate purchased from a certificate authority. If you installed a certificate using Let's Encrypt in the last chapter, then you can skip this chapter. We'll start by learning how to create a certificate signing request or CSR. A CSR is like an application to obtain an SSL certificate. It contains everything the certificate authority needs to create that certificate. It includes information about the organization. It includes the website's domain name. And of course, it includes the public key that's being certified. This information is in a digital file in a standardized format, and that allows the CA to easily process the information. We don't need to learn this format because we can use software tools to create the file for us. There are websites that will generate a CSR for you. In fact, some of the CAs may actually offer to do it. Do not use one of these online CSR generators. The reason why is that a key step in…
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