Java and SSL: How to sign a CSR

This post is part of a series about the worlds of Java and SSL.  I hope to do 1 post a day on this topic. The resulting posts will become the basis for another section of a talk that I am scheduled to give on August 10 at the Boulder/Denver Cybersecurity Meetup.

How to Sign a CSR

• What this does

A signed CSR is a certificate.  This is basically just a public key, and a hash code encrypted with the private key of the signer.