SupraLink Solutions
Internet Solutions Provider
7527 Papineau Avenue
Montréal, Québec
Canada H2E 2G9
Telephone: 514.906.1536
Fax: 514.906.1738
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WebSTAR 4
Generate a Certificate Signing Request — CSR

Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed this process, click the Close button below to close this window and continue to the next step.

  1. Launch your Key Generator. This can be found in your SSL Tools folder.
  2. Enter a key-pair password. 
    Warning: If you lose the password, you must purchase another certificate.
  3. Click on Create Key.
  4. Name the file and save it to the root folder.
  5. Enter your Certificate Signing Request information into the Certificate Request application or CSR Utility. The CSR utility can be found in the Tools and Examples folder, SSL Tools folder.
  6. Type your Distinguished Name Field information. When creating a CSR you must follow these conventions. The following characters cannot be accepted: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ? . , &

     Distinguished
     Name Field
     Explanation  Example
    Common Name The fully qualified domain name for your web server. This must be an exact match. If you intend to secure the URL https://www.supralink.com/,
    then your CSR's common name
    must be www.supralink.com.
    Organization The exact legal name of your organization. Do not abbreviate your organization name. SupraLink
    Organization Unit Section of the organization. Marketing
    City or Locality The city where your organization is legally located. Montréal
    State or Province The state or province where your organization is legally located. Cannot be abbreviated. Quebec
    Country The two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country. CA 

  7. Click Choose and select your key pair. Enter your password.
  8. Select Create.
  9. Your file can be found under Certificate Request.
  10. Quit the CSR Utility.
  11. Cut and paste your CSR with a text editor, then Submit your CSR to SupraLink - you will be asked to complete the agreement and the enrollment form as well.

Additional instructions can be found on WebSTAR's web site at:

http://www.starnine.com/

Innovating Information Security
SupraLink, in partnership with GeoTrust, the leading provider of next generation information security services, delivers secure e-commerce transactions, identity verification and authentication solutions to the global web community. SupraLink ensures a new level of e-business security — your first step toward leveraging the full business potential of the Internet.