Deployment Guide
36 Configuration Guide
•
Organization:
Enter the appropriate value (example, Dell).
•
City or locality:
Enter the appropriate value (example, Austin).
•
State or province:
Enter the unabbreviated state or province name (example, Texas).
• Two-letter country code:
United States = US
Canada = CA
Switzerland = CH
Germany = DE
Spain = ES
France = FR
Great Britain = GB
Ireland = IE
Italy = IT
Netherlands = NL
• The utility prompts for confirmation that the information is correct. If so, type
yes
.
If not, type
no
. The Keytool displays each value entered previously. Click
Enter
to accept the value or change the
value and click
Enter
.
•
Key password for alias:
If you do not enter another password here, this password defaults to the Keystore password.
Request a Signed Certificate from a Certificate Authority
Use this procedure to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the self-signed certificate created in
Generate a
New Key Pair and a Self-Signed Certificate
.
1
Substitute the same value used previously for <
certificatealias
>:
keytool -certreq -sigalg MD5withRSA -alias <certificate-alias> -keystore
.\cacerts -file <csr-filename>
Example:
keytool -certreq -sigalg MD5withRSA -alias dell -keystore .\cacerts -file
credant.csr
The .csr file will contain a BEGIN/END pair that will be used during the creation of the certificate on the CA.