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Generate X.509 certificate key pair and signing request (CSR) in C#

How do you generate a X.509 public and private key pair and a signing request (CSR file) to be sent to a CA for signing in C#? ...

How to decode a CSR File?

I ran accross a CSR file (Certificate Signing Request) and I need to extract some information from it. There's a way to decode it using .NET Framework? ...

How can I parse a Certificate Signing Request with Perl?

I want to use Perl to extract information from a Certificate Signing Request, preferably without launching an external openssl process. Since a CSR is stored in a base64-encoded ASN.1 format, I tried the Convert::PEM module. But it requires an ASN.1 description of the content, which I haven't been able to put together (ASN.1 being the be...

When using keytool to generate a CSR file, does it have to be generated on the hosting server?

I was under the impression that I could run it on any machine, but a guy from our hosting company is saying that the csr has to be generated on the server hosting the site. Can anyone clear this one up for me? Thanks. ...

Are CAs allowed to modify CSRs before signing?

Can anyone please tell me if Certifying Authorities (CAs) are allowed to make modifications to the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) before actually signing the certificate with their own private key? Specifically, I'd like to know if it's valid for the CA to insert additional fields (such as EKUs) into the cert before adding their sig...

OpenSSL and generating CSRs at client side

I need a favour from you. My infrastructure is IIS 6.0 and windows server 2003. I need to investigate the use of OpenSSL and the construction of media that can be sent to end users, allowing them to generate CSRs, as well as produce documentation to support the signing of the CSR. What I mean is, I need to send a CD to the end user wit...

Clientside CSR generation using openSSL

Hello All, I am sending an openSSL script to the client along with my companies PublicKey. The idea is, client has to run a batch file which it will run some openSSL commands in the background and generate his privatekey and csr file. While generating the CSR file I need to supply a config file to the openSSL req command. example ...

What RSA key length should I use for my SSL certificates ?

I'm in the process of creating a CSR, and I wonder which is arguably the best length for my RSA key. Of course, 384 is probably too weak, and 16384 is probably too slow. Is there a consensus on the key length one should use, depending on the certificate lifetime? Edit : Like most people, I want my key to be reasonably strong. I'm not...

generating CSR for quickbook application registration process

We are integrating our web application with Quick book. We are using hosted model. We need to register our web application. However we are not able to do so as it ask for CSR key. But we have no idea from where we will get this? Any answers? ...

BouncyCastle RSAPrivateKey to .NET RSAPrivateKey

I'm creating a certificate distribution system to keep track of clients and stuff. What happens is: Client send CSR to Server Server checks and signs certificate Server sends Signed certificate to Client Client puts Signed certificate plus Private key in Windows store. So on the client this happens: //Pseudo Server Object: Server s...

PKCS#10 request for a object key pair from PKCS#11

Hello There I have a RSA 1024 key pair generated using standard call from PKCS#11. I need to generate a PKCS#10 CSR for the public key. MS has the IEnroll4 dll which will allow to raise a CSR using createRequestWStr. The samples indicate that you need to generate a new key pair(a container with 2 objects in MS CAPI) and MS automatical...

ICertRequest2::Submit CSR data Compatability ASCII to BSTR

Hello Experts, I have my certrequest as a PEM base64 data. See data below. 1) My understanding is that this is an ASCII data type and not in UNICODE format. Please clarify. -----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- MIIBTjCBuAIBADARMQ8wDQYDVQQDEwZ3dTAwMzEwgZ0wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQAD gYsAMIGHAoGBAKP48eljetv3fVicT6g6hKjmLpsySJaZ/NnepEJEqtQQNbw...

iPhone Developer Portal won't accept my CSR

I am using the Development Provisioning Assistant in the iPhone Developer Portal, but when I get to the part where it asks me to generate and upload my CSR, I try to upload it and it just gives me this error: The CSR selected is invalid. Please check the file and try again. Does anyone know what this means or what I can do about it?? T...

CSR Generation: Tomcat or Apache?

While not entirely programming related. I recently purchased a SSL certificate, and during the configuration I need to generate as CSR. I am running Tomcat behind Apache via mod_jk. I see two options for generating the CSR one for Apache and one for Java based servers. My question is which do i use? At the moment the site needing th...

What do CAs (Certificate Authority) deliver from CSR ?

I need an SSL certificate for a web server. I can generate a self-signed SSL certificate with the following OpenSSL commands: openssl req -newkey rsa:512 -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out cert.pem -keyout cert.pem openssl dhparam -inform pem -in cert.pem -outform pem -out dhparam.pem 512 cat dhparam.pem >> cert.pem If I want to have a CA-si...

Obtaining CSR Format from a Given Symmetric Sparse Matrix

I am very new to the use of sparse matrices for solving simultaneous equations. I want to use them for solving problems in FEA. Is there a FORTRAN routine, or a function in the Intel Math Kernel library from which I can obtain the compressed row format (CSR) for a given symmetric matrix? I can then use the CSR to solve my system of lin...

need help generating CSR using my developer program

My professor has got a iphone standard developer program and has given me the credentials to login. I am unable to create a CSR following the steps in the program portal. The email id in the profile shown in the apple developer site is different from the id that was used is for registering to the program. My professor has never logged in...

CSR rejected stating "CSR has a PKCS9 extension profile"

Hi, I recently created a Certificate Signing Request(CSR) and submitted. But it was rejected stating "CSR has a PKCS9 extension profile", does a CSR generated using OPEN SSL via XCA contain any profile information? Isn't CSR a very generic request? Thanks in advance. ...

How to generate CA signed x509 certificate by M2Crypto

I have a CSR file and CA keys Thanks ...

Reading a certificate signing request with c#

Hello, I want to read the contents of a csr in c#, however I haven't found any way to do it in c#. What I've found was the namespace System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates, but it only handles existing certificates, not certificate requests:/ Can anyone give me an hint about it? Thanks in advance. Jorge ...