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13 This file is for users who wish to get a certificate of their own.
29 keys, so before you create a certificate or a certificate request, you
42 3. Creating a certificate request
44 To create a certificate, you need to start with a certificate request
45 (or, as some certificate authorities like to put it, "certificate
48 policies). A certificate request is sent to a certificate authority
49 to get it signed into a certificate. You can also sign the certificate
50 yourself if you have your own certificate authority or create a
51 self-signed certificate (typically for testing purposes).
53 The certificate request is created like this:
57 Now, cert.csr can be sent to the certificate authority, if they can
61 certificate request in the right format and you will have to use one
65 The certificate authority performs various checks (according to their
67 complete, they send you your new certificate.
69 Section 5 will tell you more on how to handle the certificate you
73 4. Creating a self-signed test certificate
75 You can create a self-signed certificate if you don't want to deal
76 with a certificate authority, or if you just want to create a test
77 certificate for yourself. This is similar to creating a certificate
78 request, but creates a certificate instead of a certificate request.
79 This is NOT the recommended way to create a CA certificate, see
85 5. What to do with the certificate
87 If you created everything yourself, or if the certificate authority
88 was kind enough, your certificate is a raw DER thing in PEM format.
90 However, some (most?) certificate authorities will encode them with
97 certificate and your key to various formats, most often also putting
101 right for your applications, simply concatenating the certificate and
106 By now, you have your certificate and your private key and can start
