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    • 23 Oct 2015

      SSL Renewal And You

      Written by Tim Bielawa

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      This post is about renewing SSL certificates. There’s not a lot of information I want to communicate here, so I’m going to keep it short.

      Yesterday the SSL certificate for https://blog.lnx.cx expired. I don’t know much about SSL, other than I find it more confusing/complicated than most things. I knew that I needed to renew the SSL certificate for the blog, but I did not know what that exactly meant. When I called my cert provider on the phone to renew, they told me that the renewal process begins with submitting a new Certificate Signing Request, or CSR in crypto parlance. We ended the call shortly thereafter and I set off to get started.

      I still had questions though. If I’m “renewing” my SSL certificate, does that mean my existing certificate is involved in some way? When I began reviewing the CSR generation procedure I saw no references to existing certificates. I did a bit of Internet research to try and figure this out.

      Eventually I found out that the idea of “renewing” a certificate is a bit of a misnomer. That is, nothing you have carries over with you. The process of “renewing” a certificate is actually the exact same process as getting an initial certificate. I’ll say that again for clarity:

      Renewing an SSL certificate is the exact same thing as getting your first SSL certificate.

      I hope this helps out other folks who are as confused as I was about the renewal process.

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