SSL : generating private & CSR keys

Hi,

This is the first time i have to generate keys for a thawte certificate.

I am on a freebsd server running apache and openssl is located in the following directory :
/usr/bin/openssl

I just want to use this server to generate the keys for the $125 thawte certificate, the actual certificate will be installed on another server on which I don't have access to.

I read the information on thawte.com but before I mess up things on the server it would be great if someone could help me along a bit.

This is what I am thinking of trying :

private key:

$ openssl genrsa -des3 -rand file1:file2:file3:file4:file5 -out www.domain.com.key 512

CSR key:
$ openssl req -new -key www.domain.com.key -out www.domain.com.csr

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Is this the correct way to do it?

I just want to generate the keys, the SSL will be setup on another server, but since I have no access to that server I have to generate the keys this way.

Help is very much appreciated

Regards,

JamesBond

 

 

 

 

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