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CSR maker and certificate converter

Make a certificate signing request (CSR) and private key right here in the browser, and convert certificates between PEM and DER. The key never leaves your device.

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What are a certificate request and a private key?

An SSL certificate needs a pair of keys: a private key that stays only on your server, and a public key that goes into the certificate. A certificate request hands the public key and the domain names, signed with the private key, to the issuer so it can make your certificate. The private key must never be sent to anyone.

PEM is the certificate turned into text between BEGIN and END lines, and DER is the same data in binary. Most Linux servers want PEM and some Windows and Java systems want DER; the content is the same, only the way it is written differs.