Working with SSL Certificates
Generating a Certificate Signing Request
• Organization Unit: (Optional) Type the name of the division, department, or
section in your organization that manages network security (for example,
Network Management).
• Locality/City*: Type the city where your organization is legally located (for
example, Sunnyvale).
• State/Province*: Type the state or province where your organization is legally
located (for example, California). Do not abbreviate the state or province
name.
• Country*: Select your country or region from the pull-down menu.
3 Click Apply. A dialog box appears and prompts you to save the CSR file
(myreq.csr) that you have just created.
4 Save the file to your computer.
Figure 198. Generating a CSR file
5 Go to a certificate authority's web site and follow the instructions for purchasing
an SSL certificate.
6 When you are prompted for the certificate signing request, copy and paste the
content of the text file that you saved to your local computer, and then complete
the certificate purchase.
After the certificate authority approves your CSR, you will receive the SSL certificate
via email. The following is an example of a signed certificate that you will receive
from a certificate authority:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
378
Ruckus Wireless, Inc.