Unless you have a reason to provide more information, you should simply press Enter at each
of the following prompts to leave them blank.
Please enter the following ???extra??™ attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
Getting Your CSR Signed
Once your CSR has been created, you need to send it to a signing authority for validation. The first
step in this process is to select a signing authority. Each signing authority has different deals, prices,
and products. Check out each of the signing authorities listed in the ???Using Third-Party Certificate
Signers??? section earlier in this chapter to determine which works best for you. The following are
areas where signing authorities differ:
Credibility and stability
Pricing
Browser recognition
Warranties
Support
Certificate strength
After you have selected your certificate signer, you have to go through some validation steps. Each
signer has a different method of validating identity and certificate information. Some require that
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you fax articles of incorporation, while others require a company officer be made available to talk
to a validation operator. At some point in the process, you will be asked to copy and paste the contents
of the CSR you created into the signer??™s Web form.
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