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certificate signing request (CSR)

An electronic document that contains at least the public key for an entity (such as LDAP Services for eDirectory®, or a user) as well as the entity's name. The CSR is a request of the certificate authority (CA) to create a public key certificate containing the specified public key and name, and the CA's signature vouching for the binding between the public key and the name. The CSR may contain other data that the CA may or may not include in the public key certificate it creates. You normally submit a CSR to a CA by e-mail, http, or https in order to receive a certificate.