A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is an SSL public key plus metadata, which is submitted to a Certificate Authority (CA) for signing. The CA verifies that the owner of the public key is who they say they are by various means, sign the key and return the result to the owner. The resulting certificate can be used as part of secure data transmissions. See also Certificate, Certificate Authority.
Data about an entity given to a certification authority. The authority will package the data into a certificate and sign the certificate if the data in the signing request is validated.
A CSR is a Public Key that you generate on your server that validates the computerspecific information about your web server and Organization when you request a Certificate from thawte.
An unsigned certificate for submission to a Certification Authority, which signs it with the Private Key of their CA Certificate. Once the CSR is signed, it becomes a real certificate. Cipher An algorithm or system for data encryption. Examples are DES, IDEA, RC4, etc.
(CSR) An unsigned → certificate for submission to a → Certification Authority, which signs it with the → Private Key of their CA Certificate. Once the CSR is signed, it becomes a real certificate. See: SSL/TLS Encryption
In public key infrastructure systems, a certificate signing request (also CSR or certification request) is a message sent from an applicant to a certificate authority in order to apply for a digital identity certificate. Before creating a CSR, the applicant first generates a key pair, keeping the private key secret. The CSR contains information identifying the applicant (such as a directory name in the case of an X.509 certificate), and the public key chosen by the applicant.