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Example: Manually Generating a CSR for the Local Certificate and Sending it to the CA Server

This example shows how to generate a certificate signing request manually.

Requirements

Generate a public and private key. See Example: Generating a Public-Private Key Pair.

Overview

In this example, you generate a certificate request using the certificate ID of a public-private key pair you previously generated (ca-ipsec). Then you specify the domain name (example.net) and the associated common name (abc). The certificate request is displayed in PEM format.

You copy the generated certificate request and paste it into the appropriate field at the CA website to obtain a local certificate. (Refer to the CA server documentation to determine where to paste the certificate request.) When the PKCS #10 content is displayed, the MD5 hash and SHA-1 hash of the PKCS #10 file is also displayed.

Configuration

Step-by-Step Procedure

To generate a local certificate manually:

Specify certificate ID, domain name, and common name.
user@host> request security pki generate-certificate-request certificate-id ca-ipsec domain-name example.net subject CN=abc

Verification

To view the certificate signing request, enter the show security pki certificate-request detail command.

Certificate identifier: ca-ipsec
Certificate version: 1
Issued to: CN = abc
Public key algorithm: rsaEncryption(1024 bits)
30:81:89:02:81:81:00:da:ea:cd:3a:49:1f:b7:33:3c:c5:50:fb:57
de:17:34:1c:51:9b:7b:1c:e9:1c:74:86:69:a4:36:77:13:a7:10:0e
52:f4:2b:52:39:07:15:3f:39:f5:49:d6:86:70:4b:a6:2d:73:b6:68
39:d3:6b:f3:11:67:ee:b4:40:5b:f4:de:a9:a4:0e:11:14:3f:96:84
03:3c:73:c7:75:f5:c4:c2:3f:5b:94:e6:24:aa:e8:2c:54:e6:b5:42
c7:72:1b:25:ca:f3:b9:fa:7f:41:82:6e:76:8b:e6:d7:d2:93:9b:38
fe:fd:71:01:2c:9b:5e:98:3f:0c:ed:a9:2b:a7:fb:02:03:01:00:01
Fingerprint:
0f:e6:2e:fc:6d:52:5d:47:6e:10:1c:ad:a0:8a:4c:b7:cc:97:c6:01 (sha1)
f8:e6:88:53:52:c2:09:43:b7:43:9c:7a:a2:70:98:56 (md5)