A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is required in case you wish to get an SSL certificate which will encrypt all the payment and login info that are exchanged between your website and its visitors. The CSR contains information about the site and its owner in Base64-encoded form - web address, physical address along with e-mail, company name and unit, etc. Based on this code, an accredited SSL vendor issues the certificate, that's digitally signed with the vendor's private key to show that they're a reliable issuer. Throughout the CSR generation, a unique private key is also created and the set up of the SSL involves all four codes - both the keys, the certificate plus the CSR. Then, you'll be able to use a URL that starts with https:// for your site rather than http:// and your website visitors will be able to view the info that you have provided for the CSR using their Internet browsers.
SSL Certificate Generator in Shared Web Hosting
As SSL certificates are among the services which we supply along with our shared web hosting plans, you are able to obtain an SSL for any website hosted in an account on our end with a couple of clicks. What's more, we have an auto-installer instrument, so when you approve your order via e-mail, our system will set everything up on your behalf and it'll install the certificate, the CSR in addition to the two private keys. Soon after that, you'll be able to load your website with https:// and any information submitted on it will be encoded, which means that no unauthorized people can intercept it. When you've chosen another SSL vendor, you can only create a Certificate Signing Request within your account on our end together with the unique private key, then save the CSR code and submit it to the other service provider.