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AgostinoX
Asked: 2013-01-08 13:46:51 +0800 CST

Windows 2003, how to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) without an IIS

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I have a Windows 2003 that hosts a Citrix Secure Gateway service. (It is a reverse proxy that adds SSL to my otherwise unencrypted connections)

It doesn't depend on IIS that indeed may also be stopped.
But for one fact: as an SSL proxy, this "secure gateway" must be provided with certificates.
When it comes to create a CSR, i need to revive my IIS, generate the CSR for the CA and install the certificate returned back from the CA (that is, process the csr pending request).
I am wondering if there is another tool in order to do such things because i can easily imagine Windows servers without IIS installed on them and I would like to have a procedure to manage those cases too.

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1 Answers

  1. The command line tool certreq is available on most versions of Windows (2000,2003,2008,2012), and can be used to generate and accept requests.

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