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What is a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)?

Certificate Signing Request or CSR is encoded information that contains the applicant's information such as a common name, the name of an organization, email address, city, state, and country. This encoded information is used by the certifying authority (CA) to issue an SSL certificate to the applicant.

CSR is base 64 encoded text to start with "--BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST--" and end with "--END CERTIFICATE REQUEST--" lines.

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