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6. Certificate Signing Requests

Certificate signing requests are described in PKCS#10 standard. They are used to supply a Certification Authority with the needed information to issue a valid certificate for you without knowing your private key. This includes your personal information and your public key.

6.1 Generating a new Request

After clicking on the New Request button the Certificate Wizard will be started to ask all needed information for generating a new Request. See: Wizard The request generation can also be invoked by the context menu of a certificate (Export->Request). This menu point is only available if the private key of the certificate is available. In this case all needed data is copied from the certificate and the Wizard is not invoked.

6.2 Request export

Requests can be exported by either the context-menu or by selecting the request and pressing the Export button. The only supported format for exported requests is PEM, because there is no need for DER formatted requests in real life. If someone needs DER formatted requests, drop me a mail and I will implement it.

6.3 Request details

All information contained in the request are shown. If the Keystore does contain the private key corresponding to the request the keys internal name is shown in the Key field.


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