Questions tagged [csr]

In Public Key Infrastructure cryptography a CSR is a Certificate Signing Request

In Public Key Infrastructure cryptography a CSR is a Certificate Signing Request. A CSR is a request sent to a Certification Authority to receive a digital certificate based on the information contained within the CSR such as the identity of the web site or user applying for the certificate.

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Windows 7 - How to generate CSR when IIS is not installed

My .NET application will be communicating with a third party server application that is implemnted as web-service over SSL. This application will run from different flavours of Windows 7 platform. The server application requires me to generate CSR…
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How to create CSR with utf8 subject in openssl?

I am trying to generate Certificate Signing Request with UTF-8 subject. $ openssl req -utf8 -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout my.private_key.pem -out my.csr.pem -text Generating a 2048 bit RSA private…
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Generating a CSR for root domain (includes www or not?)

I am trying to set up SSL for the first time. I purchased my domain and SSL certificate from Gandi.net. Their docs say subdomain.example.com indicates the subdomain that you want to protect. This is the most important part. If you have a…
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Access value, column index, and row_ptr data from scipy CSR sparse matrix

I have a large matrix that I would like to convert to sparse CSR format. When I do: import scipy as sp Ks = sp.sparse.csr_matrix(A) print Ks Where A is dense, I get (0, 0) -2116689024.0 (0, 1) 394620032.0 (0, 2) -588142656.0 (0, 12) …
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How to use Linux openssl to generate CSR for iOS?

Apple, faithful to its extremely proprietary spirit, requires certificates used for iOS developer program to be generated with a mac. (as a .certSigningRequest file) Obviously, they somehow use a standard for these keys, so my question is: What does…
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Generating an OpenSSL Certificate Signing Request in iOS with Keychain stored keys

I'm trying to generate a CSR in iOS. Since apparently the Apple security framework for iOS doesn't include methods for CSR generation I had to compile the OpenSSL source code for my project. Now I want to know how to use these methods with the keys…
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Unable to create a new Certificate Signing Request

I deleted all my certificates and private keys, because I want to do totally fresh install. Now I cannot create CSR because I get error The user name or passphrase entered is not correct Steps which I've done: Open Keychain Access. On the drop…
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Generating certificate signing request in Keychain Access: which private key is used?

I am wondering which private key Keychain Access in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, now Lion) uses. Whenever I create a CSR using that app, it does not even ask for a private key to use. So which one does it use then? I could imagine that it used the…
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Create CSR using PKCS10 and sign with RSA keys In Swift

I generated RSA keys and my backend sends 3 parameters in BASE64 (except signatureAlgorithm) for creating CSR to me: "subject" :…
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How to programmatically create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)?

How to implement it in C? openssl req -new -key cert.key -out cert.csr openssl x509 -req -in cert.csr -CA rootCA.crt -CAkey rootCA.key -CAcreateserial -out cert.crt -days 5000
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Reading a certificate signing request with C#

I want to read the contents of a CSR in C#. However, I haven't found any way to do it in C#. What I've found was the namespace System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates, but it only handles existing certificates, not certificate requests. Can…
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Safari Extension Developer Certificate - Windows

I'm trying to get started with Safari extension development, but I keep getting the "No Safari Extension Developer Certificate" error. I followed the openssl instructions here: making CSR certificates in Windows (7) I uploaded the CSR file to…
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generate csr with secp384r1elliptic curve key and sha384 hash signature

I am using openssl commands to create a CSR with elliptic curve secp384r1 and hash signed with algorithm sha384: openssl ecparam -out ec_client_key.pem -name secp384r1 -genkey openssl req -new -key ec_client_key.pem -out ec_clientReq.pem Then I…
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How to sign a client's CSR with openssl?

I am missing something basic and obvious about signing a client's CSR with openssl command. I have (simulated) two organizations, one is the organization of the certificate authority (exists in California) and the other is the client organization…
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Add e-mail to CSR generated with keytool

As per this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_signing_request the CSR can contain an email address. My question is how can I add such e-mail address field considering I`m generating the CSR with keytool ? Thank you.
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