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Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)

Manage Certificate Signing Requests

This page will help you to generate and manage ssl certificate signing requests (CSR), which is required for the generation of commercial ssl certificates. 

Location :

SSL/TLS -> Signing Requests (CSR)

Create Certificate Signing Requests (CSR )

To create the CSR, click the button  Generate CSR from this page, which will take you to the CSR generation page.  You may need to fill out the following details,

Email Address, Enter an email address that will receive the generated CSR and private Key file. 

Key Type, Select a private key option. It is recommended to use RSA.

Some of the ECC / ECDSA certificates may not be supported by all browsers.

Now fill out the certificate information like City, State, Country, Company name, Company Division, and Email address to contact the CA.

Select Primary Domain Name,  select the domain that you would like to generate the CSR.

SAN or UCC Domains, Enter all the subdomains on other domain names that may use the same certificate.

It is recommended to add the SANS, eenos.yourdomain.com, mail.yourdomain.com, and www.yourdomain.com to your ssl certificate CSR if you are  installing the certificate on  yourdomain.com

Now click the button Create CSR. This will generate the CSR and email the details.

You can use this generated CSR  to purchase a commercial SSL certificate from a certificate provider.

Manage CSR

You can view all your generated CSR from this Signing Requests page in a tabular format. With this table, you can do the following tasks,

  • View CSR  - to view the generated CSR
  • Download CSR - to download the generated CSR to your desktop
  • View Key - to view the private key of the CSR
  • Download Key-  to download the private key file
  • Delete CSR -  will delete the CSR and key files

Deleting CSR and Key files are irreversible task. You can recover a deleted key file only if you have it in your email inbox.