Sending CSR to CA

Now, we will use our public key to request a trial certificate from VeriSign, a certification authority.

Note that the trial certificate has a very simple checking procedure and your certificate will be delivered quite quickly. When you come to buy your full certificate the checking procedure is much more rigorous as you have to actually prove that you own the domain, are a member of the company and so on. Full certificates, therefore, take longer to be delivered and you should bear this in mind when you are ready to order it.

Go to the VeriSign website and select the Trial Certificate ordering page.

Follow the ordering wizard, giving all the relevant information as requested.

When you are requested to enter the Certificate Signing Request, cut and paste the entire contents of you public.pem file into the field.

We also recommend that when you are asked to give your server platform you select "Server not listed".

At the end of the process an email will be sent to you containing your signed certificate.