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Sample certificate request in PEM format

This is a sample certificate request in PEM format. 

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
MIIC5DCCAcwCAQAwgZ4xCzAJBgNVBAYTAkdCMQ8wDQ..wZTdXJyZXkxDjAM
BgNVBAcTBUVnaGFtMRowGAYDVQQKExFBcnRzIEJ1aW..Ex0ZDEWMBQGA1UE
CxMNRGVwdC4gSGlzdG9yeTEZMBcGA1UEAxMQU2ltb3..XRlbGxpczEfMB0G
CSqGSIb3DQEJARYQc2ltb3NAb3BlbmNhLm9yZzCCAS..oZIhvcNAQEBBQAD
ggEPADCCAQoCggEBAN089pq+0mYgDH0MrrwYzPToiY..QYz+QhP1pv0a+dN
D0Svi4fceXiT6OQgGd/wDQRNLEytGbAxjGpNptYO6K..R6iMRU89E2tXfjQ
I8Jy3uJzm+/3hCWwz5JNOUoYQayRgSisW/J9dOKP+a..c2xTCMjYycwTNqO
cuQNd8Ii4rRDu53KNln8mJEM2sQsNAMM5ZFR4iMgrm..aUs5L+rL/uCAzG0
/16QqPC+sE2q868sJ0LIfnrSw+hbU42G2672fEUDNb..Nqsa2gFfvhzQWJj
VrNHbhHY1GySvmWq8qVyPU7Z0uKNQpI+zzn5Y4kCAw..A0GCSqGSIb3DQEB
BAUAA4IBAQC2y+cj6EmXzHunozGDv3fu9rw+T7SLrh..tY0K4L5w/4jOXRS
Q5VHn8o2M1E8JE2iK9tg24Nkh9GvkODxbP2ABYKslT..pZ8KC+wHCDZyXCY
Fgrass8oENyZG2VFFlfgbtRUssdKldJcJKpgnsHyt1..xJ11Y0t0n9ruayu
Oqp9lTEu6e+Lhhcuad4JncXiSR0EdG75AqN9bbI8NG..tgzzOrvfYNtGe9t
EI/wriWPQvl4QLJ5VevzuIC62dQztVQmDR2hPd2J8/..1ArMX5olNCef2XB
Rghkcki7R/ZpuuwaXkT+qDu+eoDwju0P
-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

Note

This is the certificate request that a Certification Authority needs to sign. Typical CAs could be Verisign, Thawte and of course OpenCA.

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