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SSL Certificates
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The following is a sample CSR:
-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
MIIERzCCAy8CAQAwZzELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxCzAJBgNVBAgMAk5ZMREwDwYDVQQ
H
DAhuZXcgeW9yazEPMA0GA1UECgwGbXkgb3JnMQswCQYDVQQLDAJJVDEaMBgGA1U
E
AwwRd3d3Lm15d2Vic2l0ZS5jb20wggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggE
K
AoIBAQCfvbkuJwMiwOwgvRAV1XS/HZFGH0I6/p2NyOn7onb8uEV3cMFf4iCzBN6
Z
KJD92qVtmZSBpH9IQrYiEohTxkgJ2c/dyX06eDVS7nE53etPOZCM8VvJOq/7PDo
+
7Kvy6jhQVU7Rb1mQrFcrU0GVOQWWqqtpHwbeKPfJ3mRlPNzygmXAUXkv0XdstQP
m
b5sVx965SGoIgrRUDpl+UNUcE198AVPEiDUg1VqY+mUmyOcvCkO153UtxDUMooc
g
S5WlfD83We35a7I6+FAvDKKk31gv6Jxfs/EzZ6D0iiytDMAWNRwDvaYcu06O8Ye
/
rt9mFF90XsMMn7xi0cuCaLzG7JrJAgMBAAGgggGZMBoGCisGAQQBgjcNAgMxDBY
K
Ni4xLjc2MDEuMjA1BgkrBgEEAYI3FRQxKDAmAgEFDAdkZWxsLVBDDAtkZWxsLVB
D
XERldgwLSW5ldE1nci5leGUwcgYKKwYBBAGCNw0CAjFkMGICAQEeWgBNAGkAYwB
y
AG8AcwBvAGYAdAAgAFIAUwBBACAAUwBDAGgAYQBuAG4AZQBsACAAQwByAHkAcAB
0
AG8AZwByAGEAcABoAGkAYwAgAFAAcgBvAHYAaQBkAGUAcgMBADCBzwYJKoZIhvc
N
AQkOMYHBMIG+MA4GA1UdDwEB/wQEAwIE8DATBgNVHSUEDDAKBggrBgEFBQcDATB
4
BgkqhkiG9w0BCQ8EazBpMA4GCCqGSIb3DQMCAgIAgDAOBggqhkiG9w0DBAICAIA
w
BAEFMAcGBSsOAwIHMAoGCCqGSIb3DQMHMB0GA1UdDgQWBBS4T+amOyNS+ECWfIx
w
eBUR+XRv+TCTfXvFRiQ35T960o79JqJZpaD+PS9HNghqS05ldsrA/p/n/1rG9T+
n
1a6jTj6BEwOLaTfUWlq8KtkkYiROOC9LqhQCn84PQuO3L9clLrsV//1C4hGkFUb
G
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
SSL Certificate Formats
An SSL Certificate is essentially an X.509 certificate. X.509 is a standard that defines
the structure of the certificate. It defines the data fields that should be included in the
SSL certificate.
There are different formats of X.509 certificates such as PEM, DER, PKCS#7 and
PKCS#12. PEM and PKCS#7 formats use Base64 ASCII encoding while DER and
PKCS#12 use binary encoding. The certificate files have different extensions based
on the format and encoding they use.