A Certificate Signing Request (CSR) is required if you want to obtain an SSL certificate which will encrypt all of the payment and account info that are exchanged between your website and its clients. The CSR contains info about the website as well as its owner in Base64-encoded form - web address, physical address plus email, company name and unit, and the like. Based upon this code, a certified SSL vendor gives you the certificate, that is digitally signed with the vendor's private key to identify that they're a reliable issuer. Throughout the CSR generation, a unique private key is also created and the set up of the SSL involves all of the 4 codes - both the keys, the certificate and the CSR. Then, you will be able to use a URL that begins with https:// for your website rather than http:// and the site visitors can view the information that you've provided for the CSR via their Internet browsers.
SSL Certificate Generator in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host a site in a cloud website hosting account purchased through our company and its visitors send private data, you will be able to obtain an SSL certificate for it directly through your hosting Control Panel and with only a couple of clicks. We have an easy-to-use order wizard, therefore you just need to select the domain/subdomain and enter the needed data for the Certificate Signing Request. You'll receive an e-mail to approve your order and soon after the SSL is issued, it will be set up automatically by our system, so you will not need to deal with any codes or settings. If you intend to use the services of some other Certificate Authority, you can only acquire a CSR through your Control Panel then copy the code that you have to submit for the SSL. You will see the private key generated along with the CSR in the very same section.