Creating self-signed certificates
- Select Option 6 to create a self-signed
certificate.
- Select one of the CA certificate types,
for example 1 – CA with 1024 RSA key.
- Enter a label for the certificate. For example, SigningCA.
- Enter the certificate information:
- Common name, for example Signing Certificate
- Organization Unit, for example Rocket Software
- Organization, for example PD
- City
- State
- Country
- Number of days that the certificate is valid. The certificate
can be valid from 1 – 9999 days.
- Select Option 1 to manage keys and
certificates.
- Select SigningCA.
- Select Option 7 to export certificates
and keys.
- Select Option 3 or Option
4.
- File name SigningCA.p12.
- Enter a password twice.
- Enter 0 for export encryption.
- Change to your PC.
- FTP the .p12 file to the PC using
binary if option 3 was used to export or ASCII is option 4 was used.
- Open Internet Explorer:
- Click .
- Select the Contents tab.
- Click Certificates.
- Click Import.
- Click Next.
- Select file that was FTPed to the PC.
- Click Next.
- Type the certificate password and select the Mark
this key as exportable check box.
- Click Next.
- Place the certificate in the Trusted Signing store.
- Click Next.
- Click Finish.