I need to get a certificate from VeriSign to use in FileZilla (FTPS, FTP over SSL), to get the certificate, Verisign asks for a CSR file, FileZilla doesn't seem to have a way to generate those CSR files; how would I go about generating this file that VeriSign needs so they can issue a certificate that I can use in FileZilla?
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1Are you looking for a client certificate or a server certificate? "FileZilla" doesn't use certificates per-se, the FTPS protocol does, so if you're hosting an FTPS server, then it's your FTPS daemon that needs the certificate, not FileZilla. Your question here serverfault.com/questions/151501/… seems to get it correct– Mark HendersonJun 15, 2010 at 23:28
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server certificate, FileZilla does have the option to import the certificate, and you can generate one too, but I need it from a CA, and for that I need the CSR– BlackTigerXJun 15, 2010 at 23:45
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You will need to use something like openssl
to generate a Certificate Signing Request. It is not too difficult to do and there are plenty of instructions on how to do it on the internet.
openssl genrsa -out host.key 2048
openssl req -new -nodes -key host.key -out host.csr
Or something to that affect.
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IIS has a tool to generate CSRs, could I use that? FileZilla only needs the certificate, doesn't care about the CSR, that makes me think it would work, but I'd like to know for sure Jun 16, 2010 at 20:09
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After the certificate is generated, you would only need the certificate itself and the private key. The CSR itself is not needed.– sybreonJun 18, 2010 at 17:18