From: "Martin Boßlet" <martin.bosslet@...>
Date: 2011-11-10T08:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [gist] Ruby script for creating TLS certificates

2011/11/9 Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>:
> 2011/11/9 John Downey <jdowney@gmail.com>:
>> You actually send them what is called a certificate signing request (CSR).
>> The OpenSSL::X509::Request class can be used to generate this for you. It
>> is signed with your key and includes the public part of the key so that the
>> CA can give you a certificate for it.
>
> Good to know :)
>
> Thanks a lot.
>

You may find an example of how to use X509::Request at

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/OpenSSL.html

and further examples can be found in the tests:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/test/openssl/test_x509req.rb

Regards,
Martin