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Chapter 14 Secuirty Features
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You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Indiana
Locality Name (eg, city) []:West Lafayette
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Purdue University
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Delta Chi Fraternity
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:10.90.149.80
Email Address []:amelia@purdue.edu
Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:Boilermakers Inc.
OpenSSL>
Sign the CSR
Sign the Certificate Signing Request with the self-created CA made earlier and name
it public.crt: Browsers such as Firefox are very picky about serial numbers and check
for duplicates. Serial numbers must be unique for each signing.
OpenSSL> x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -CA ca.crt -CAkey ca.key -set_serial 01 -
out public.crt
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Signature ok
subject=/C=US/ST=Indiana/L=West Lafayette/O=Purdue University/OU=Delta
Chi Frate
212
78-4025112-01 Rev H0
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