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In this post we will see, how can we create CSR with SAN, which stands for Subject Alternative Names and obviously using openssl command. For those who do not know what is SAN, let me cover this in short.There are 3 main types of SSL  Standard SSL  :- Used for securing single domain. like www.domain.com, i,e one domain -- one certificate Wild card SSL : - Used for securing multiple sub-domains like home.domain.com office.domain.com in single certificate, i.e multiple subdomain --- single certificate Multi-domain SSL : -- Used for securing multiple domains, like www.domain.com, www.home.com, www.office.net, i,e multiple domains --- single certificate. So, SAN comes under multiple domains certificate category. When you purchase a multi-domain certificate from certificate issuing authority ,they give you options of defining SAN along with primary domain. So, Here we are discussing about how to create CSR(which is required while purchasing the certificate) with SAN itself.

  If you are managing many of sites and their respective SSL certs, some times ,we come across a situation where we messed up with SSL certs and their CSR and private keys,   Where we do not know, which private key belongs to which Cert and which private key belongs to which CSR. This happen only if proper management of keeping SSL files are not in used  after all we are all human being ,who do mistakes :)  right ? so, here on this page I will tell you , how to check which cert belongs to which private key and which CSR belongs to which private key , and that is  only using openssl command on the terminal itself, after all we are love linux terminal :) So , here it is, openssl rsa -noout -modulus -in mydomain.key | openssl md5  openssl req -noout -modulus -in mydomain.csr | openssl md5 openssl x509 -noout -modulus -in domain.crt | openssl md5 If you find the output of all command identical ,high probability is that all files i.e private key ,csr and certificate are match

Before Generating CSR ,let see what is Openssl. It is nothing but a core library ,which is used for general purpose in cryptography,it is an open source product which work towards the implementation of SSL and TLS protocols. Talking about openssl, some people called the certificates generated from openssl as "self signed certificate". lets go towards now,creating CSR and private key using openssl command, Just log in to any of your Linux box and run following command as  root user  replacing the required information as per your need . [root@SVR home]#   openssl req -new -newkey  rsa:2048 -nodes -sha256 -out domain_name.csr -keyout domain_name.key -subj "/C=US/ST=state/L=locality/O=organization/OU=organization unit Dept/CN=www.domain.com"  You will get output like : Then check whether ,all the information we have entered ,while creating CSR is proper ,by decoding the CSR from some online tool. First do the cat to the csr file [root@SVR home]#  cat

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Hello There ! :) i hope you all are doing great. Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog. This is the first time i am writing something offline or online. I am not sure how i will make my blog different then the most of the blog you read online. but i will be honest with my blog means what ever i write, i will try to be more clear and easily understandable for most of the audience. A little introduction about myself, I am Currently Working in One of the Top MNCs of North America as System Administrator. My Current Domain is Web Hosting i.e E-commerce sites Hosted on Linux Servers. When i was doing my Engineering, i didn't had any clue what to do in life just like most of youngster :) but i saw ray of interest in Computer Networks during my Final year of Engg. Why Linux for me ? I never thought that I would be working on linux as i had more interest towards Computer Networks, but eventually i got shifted to linux due to 2008 Economic break down, as there were no jobs du