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No, you never send your private key to anyone, with any HTTPS certificate generating scheme. All they do is sign your public key.
by atonse 11y ago
No, you never send your private key to anyone, with any HTTPS certificate generating scheme.
All they do is sign your public key.
- ge0rg 11y agoAt least you should not. StartSSL (and probably other CAs) has a prominent feature to create your key pair for you, which you need to skip to use a signing request. Always use the latter!