Digital Certificate for Signed PDF

Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a request sent to a CA in order to authenticate the credentials contained within the certificate.

Note

We recommend that the Root Certificate from the CA be installed on your computer before creating the CSR.

a Click Create CSR.

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b Enter a Common Name and your information, such as Organization.

 

Your company details are required so that a CA can confirm your identity and attest to the outside world.

 

Note

•The length of the Common Name can be up to 64 characters. The Common Name is required.

•A warning will pop-up if you enter a different name in the URL than the Common Name that was used for the certificate.

•The length of the Organization, the Organization Unit, the City/Locality and the State/Province can be up to 64 characters.

•The Country/Region should be an ISO 3166 country code composed of two characters.

•If you are configuring X.509v3 certificate extension, choose the Configure extended partition check box and then choose Auto (Register IPv4) or Manual.

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