inside the brain » Certificates http://www.conorpower.com And this will be different how... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:10:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Generate a CSR using OpenSSL http://www.conorpower.com/2009/11/17/generate-a-csr-using-openssl/ http://www.conorpower.com/2009/11/17/generate-a-csr-using-openssl/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:33:59 +0000 Conor http://www.conorpower.com/?p=422 I do this the odd time in work so I don’t have to remember the command but it gets really annoying trying to remember it when I do have to generate one.

openssl genrsa -out domainname.key 2048 (or whatever length you choose)

openssl req -new -key domainname.key -out domainname.csr

This will generate the private key without a password, now you have a nice shiny CSR to send someone.

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