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CSR Cannot be decoded, or is invalid


The CSR must contain a minimum of the following fields:

Organization
Organizational Unit
Locality (City)
State/Province
Country (2 character code)
Common Name (Fully Qualified Domain Name)

Another possibility is that the CSR contains illegal characters in the required fields shown above. They must contain alpha-numeric characters only.


Make sure your CSR begins with 5 dashs and ends with 5 dashs as below:
-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

Also, please check for additional characters that may have been picked up by accident. Normally, a CSR that contains characters such as '?', '@', '#', '$', '%', '^', '&' and '*' will cause issues. The only allowable non-alphanumeric character is the backslash '\'.

 

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