Generating a Certificate Request

Create a private key and a self signed certificate as explained in the Creating a Private Key and Self Signed Certificate .

The following is the syntax:

       > makekeys -req [-v] [-password <password>] -dname <distinguished-name-string> <private-key-file> <public-key-cert><cert-request-file>
      

For example,

       > makekeys -req -dname "CN=Symbian Foundation Developer O=Symbian Foundation C=GB" HelloWorld.key HelloWorld.cer HelloWorldreq.p10
      

Here, the -dname provides a simple distinguished name string to the MakeKeys tool. HelloWorld.key is the private key file and HelloWorld.cer is the public key self-signed certificate file that were created previously using MakeKeys. Helloworldreq.p10 is the name of the output certificate request file.