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During the online enrollment process you will be required to provide Entrust Certificate Services with a Certificate Signing Request (CSR).

This data is generated from the OpenSSL application, and contains information about your company and web server.

It is important to review this guideline, as Entrust Certificate Services will use this information to generate your certificate.

To generate your Private Key :

Select three large (approximately 200 KB) files from your hard drive for use as a seed for your random data. These files are referred to as "randfile1", "randfile2", and "randfile3" in the steps below.

Open a terminal or console window and type the following, single command:
#openssl genrsa -des3 -rand randfile1:randfile2:randfile3 -out path/to/your/apacheconf/ssl.key/server.key 1024
(all one line)

This will generate a 1024 bit RSA key pair and store it in the file "server.key"

Enter a passphrase when prompted. Please remember the passphrase you choose. If you forget this passphrase you will not be able to use your Entrust SSL Certificate. If you write down this passphrase, please be sure to store it in a secure location.

Back up the file that contains your private key. Please be sure that the backup is stored in a secure location. Someone with access to your private key could decrypt the SSL-protected data sent and received by your web server.

When Viewing your Private Key it should look similar to the below picture:

Example:

-----Begin RSA Private Key-----
sdfksdjflkajdfa9d8fas98df7as8dfs98dfu9a8
KLJDFDJF8sdf89sfKLJDFLKJDdslkfj879878798
dkjfskldjfsjdfwiejfwoighwighwihgiowjreof
lsdkfjsdifouweiofuwiogww987889789w798fff
KLJDFOEI8748KJDFKJDIOFUE3245IODUGOIJ0948
lsdjfsdjfoiwuefiowjoijwoijwoiufwiewuruie
cnvmsnvwj29857KDJFKLDJFKLNCJ02IODJOIJEoi
-----End RSA Private Key-----

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