{"id":187,"date":"2017-11-29T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/?p=187"},"modified":"2017-11-29T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:02:46","slug":"rekey-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/rekey-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rekey certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re-keying an SSL certificate refers to creating a new private key for your certificate, which is used in the process of encrypting and decrypting data sent from and to your website.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"alert cs-alert-danger\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Warning:<\/strong>\u00a0Re-keying is only available to certificates installed on customers&#8217; own servers.\u00a0Certificates installed on any of our services never need to be re-keyed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>By creating a new private key, you invalidate your certificate&#8217;s old private key; this means you must install your new, re-keyed certificate within 72 hours of re-keying.<\/p>\n<p>You should re-key your SSL certificate when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your server crashes.<\/li>\n<li>You lose your private key.<\/li>\n<li>You move your website to a new server.<\/li>\n<li>You change your account&#8217;s domain.<\/li>\n<li>You want to change your SSL certificate&#8217;s signature algorithm to SHA-2. For more information, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/4818?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">Information about Requiring the SHA-2 Hash Function<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You want to change your SSL certificate&#8217;s issuing organization. For more information, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/5227?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">Using the Right Issuing Organization for Your SSL<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You change the encryption level of your SSL certificate. For more information, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/5619?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">Why do you require a 2048-bit key for my CSR?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Before You Begin<\/h3>\n<p>Before you can re-key your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/\">SSL certificate<\/a>, you must generate a new certificate signing request (CSR) from your Web server. For instructions, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/5343?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">Generate a CSR (certificate signing request)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The information in your new CSR must be identical to the information for your existing certificate, i.e. you cannot change the organization&#8217;s information (although you can change the domain name you&#8217;re securing). If you need to change your certificate details, you must revoke the certificate in your account, purchase a new SSL credit, and complete the SSL request again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">\u00a0<strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0We automatically deactivate the previous certificate when we issue the new, re-keyed certificate. Do not revoke unless you are certain you want to cancel the existing certificate. When you revoke, the SSL credit is canceled and you cannot re-key the certificate.<\/p>\n<h4>To Re-Key Your SSL Certificate<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to your IFindHost &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/\">CheapDomainRegistration.com<\/a> account.<\/li>\n<li>Under\u00a0<strong>SSL Certificates<\/strong>, next to the certificate you want to use, click\u00a0<strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Next to the certificate you want to use, in the\u00a0<strong>Actions<\/strong>\u00a0column, click\u00a0<strong>View Status<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Re-Key certificate<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the\u00a0<strong>Certificate Signing Request (CSR)<\/strong>\u00a0field, paste your new CSR, including &#8212;-BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST&#8212;- and &#8212;-END CERTIFICATE REQUEST&#8212;-.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Submit all saved changes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your newly re-keyed certificate is immediately available for download (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/4754?prog_id=ifindhost\">more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"alert cs-alert-danger\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Warning:<\/strong>\u00a0We&#8217;ll remove the old certificate from our system within 72 hours. To ensure continuity of service, you must install the re-keyed certificate immediately (<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/16623?prog_id=ifindhost\">more info<\/a>).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-keying an SSL certificate refers to creating a new private key for your certificate, which is used in the process of encrypting and decrypting data sent from and to your website. \u00a0Warning:\u00a0Re-keying is only available to certificates installed on customers&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,46],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manage-your-certificate","category-ssl-certificates","tag-re-keying-an-ssl-certificate-refers-to-creating-a-new-private-key-for-your-certificate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}