How website holder get the certificate from the certificate authority?
May 3, 2022
- The website holder generates the “public key” and “private key”.
- The website holder sends the “public key” with some other information like holder name, subject, serial number, signature algorithm, signature, etc to the certificate authority.
- The certificate authority verifies the data provided by the Website holder then builds the certificate and finally digitally signs it for the holder. A certificate is a document that contains necessary information about the website holder like the holder's public key, expiration date, name of the certificate holder, and the digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority.
- CA send the certificate to the website holder. The holder configures the certificate in the server.
