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5.18 Certificate
A certificate is a public key, attached with its owner
’
s information (company name,
server name, personal real name, contact e-mail, postal address, etc) and digital
signatures. There will be one or more digital signatures attached to the certificate,
indicating that these entities have verified that this certificate is valid.
5.18.1 Local
CREATE CERTIFICATE REQUEST
Click
Create Certificate Request
to generate a certificate-signing request.
The certificate-signing request can be submitted to the vendor/ISP/ITSP to apply for
a certificate. Some information must be included in the certificate-signing request.
Your vendor/ISP/ITSP will ask you to provide the information they require and to
provide the information in the format they regulate. Enter the required information
and click
Apply
to generate a private key and a certificate-signing request.
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