Certificate Request

This screen is used to generate a new Certificate Request. The Certificate Request generated here could be used:

- To generate a self-signed certificate
- To get a certificate, signed by external trusted certification authority, such as Thawte or Verisign.

If you are running a production eCommerce or other secure site, you should use a certificate signed by a trusted authority. Popular Internet browsers recognize them automatically and will not generate warning messages. To get such certificate, please fill out this form, press "Submit" and send the resulted request to the trusted signing authority (you could use one from the list below).

- Thawte
- Verisign
- Equifax

You will receive signed certificate which you can import into the system in "Certificate" section.

If you think you could just use self-signed certificate, after pressing "Submit" go directly to the "Certificate" section.

With self-signed certificate, visitors to your secure site will have to install your certificate into their browser, or get a warning on each secure access attempt.

Field purpose is outlined in the table below:

Field Name | Description
Country Code | Two-letter ISO 3166 Country designation, for example, US, FR, UK, RU, SG, AU.
State or Province | For example, California, Ontario, Ohio. Please do not abbreviate
Locality | The city where you are located. For example, San Francisco
Organization Name | Company name or International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-registered, top-level organization
Organization Unit | Your department within your company, such as Marketing.
Site Name | The full domain name of the server, for example, www.mycompany.com
Generate key | Use with caution! Make sure you know what are you doing! New private key will be generated, and any certificate already installed will no longer be valid. Generally, you should only use this once when creating a first certificate.