Creating a self-signed certificate
1. Select Option 6 – Create a Self-signed Certificate.
2. Select one of the CA certificate types, for example 1 – CA with 1024 RSA key.
3. Enter a label like SigningCA.
4. Enter the certificate information:
a. Common name, for example Signing Certificate
b. Organization Unit, for example BlueZone Software
c. Organization, for example PD
d. City
e. State
f. Country
g. Number of days certificate is valid (1 – 9999)
5. Select Option 1 – Manage Keys and Certificates.
6. Select SigningCA.
7. Select Option 7 – Export Certificate and Key.
8. Select Option 3 or 4 PKCS #12 version 3.
9. File name SigningCA.p12.
10. Enter password twice.
11. Enter 0 for export encryption.
12. Change to your PC.
13. FTP the .p12 file to the PC using Binary if option 3 was used to export or ASCII is option 4 was used.
14. Open Internet Explorer:
a. Click Tools → Internet Options.
b. Click the Contents tab.
c. Click Certificates.
d. Click Import.
e. Click Next.
f. Select file that was FTP'ed to the PC.
g. Click Next.
h. Type the certificate password and select the Mark this key as exportable check box.
i. Click Next.
j. Place in Trusted Signing store.
k. Click Next.
l. Click Finish.
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