To Create a Certificate File

After you pay a fee, your certificate is transmitted to you as an email or file attachment. Then, you copy the contents from the CA certificate into a text file to create your own certificate file.

1. Open the certificate email or file.

2. Select the file contents between the header and trailer text.

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   Note –

   Make sure you exclude the header and trailer.

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3. Copy the contents of the certificate to the buffer.

4. Create a new text file.

5. Paste the certificate file contents into the empty file.

6. Save the file as machine name.cert.

   Where:

   machine name is the name of the computer that is hosting the SME/KS files.

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   Note –

   The .cert extension is arbitrary. Certificate and key files can have any extension, but the extension you use should imply the contents of the file.

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