Brother International DCP-8155DN SSL Guide - English - Page 11

Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), Auto Register IPv4

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Digital Certificate for SSL communication Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) 2 A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a request sent to a CA in order to authenticate the credentials contained within the certificate. Note 2 We recommend that the Root Certificate from the CA be installed on your computer before creating the CSR. a Click Create CSR. b Enter a Common Name and your information, such as Organization. Your company details are required so that a CA can confirm your identity and attest to the outside world. Note • The length of the Common Name must be less than 64 characters. Enter an identifier such as an IP address, node name or domain name to use when accessing this machine through SSL/TLS communication. The node name is displayed by default. The Common Name is required. • A warning will pop-up if you enter a different name in the URL than the Common Name that was used for the certificate. • The length of the Organization, the Organization Unit, the City/Locality and the State/Province must be less than 64 characters. • The Country/Region should be an ISO 3166 country code composed of two characters. • If you are configuring the X.509v3 certificate extension, choose the Configure extended partition check box and then choose Auto (Register IPv4) or Manual. c You can choose the Public Key Algorithm and Digest Algorithm settings from the pull-down list. The default settings are RSA(2048bit) for Public Key Algorithm and SHA256 for Digest Algorithm. 7

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Digital Certificate for SSL communication
2
Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
2
A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is a request sent to a CA in order to authenticate the credentials
contained within the certificate.
Note
We recommend that the Root Certificate from the CA be installed on your computer before creating the
CSR.
a
Click
Create CSR
.
b
Enter a
Common Name
and your information, such as
Organization
.
Your company details are required so that a CA can confirm your identity and attest to the outside world.
Note
The length of the
Common Name
must be less than 64 characters. Enter an identifier such as an IP
address, node name or domain name to use when accessing this machine through SSL/TLS
communication. The node name is displayed by default. The
Common Name
is required.
A warning will pop-up if you enter a different name in the URL than the Common Name that was used for
the certificate.
The length of the
Organization
, the
Organization Unit
, the
City/Locality
and the
State/Province
must
be less than 64 characters.
• The
Country/Region
should be an ISO 3166 country code composed of two characters.
If you are configuring the X.509v3 certificate extension, choose the
Configure extended partition
check
box and then choose
Auto (Register IPv4)
or
Manual
.
c
You can choose the
Public Key Algorithm
and
Digest Algorithm
settings from the pull-down list. The
default settings are
RSA(2048bit)
for
Public Key Algorithm
and
SHA256
for
Digest Algorithm
.