The certificate signing request (CSR) is a small, encrypted text file, is a message sent from an applicant to a certificate authority in order to apply for a digital identity certificate. The CSR contains all the necessary information needed by a certificate authority (CA), to generate and issue a new SSL certificate. the CSR is the first and most important step in applying for an SSL certificate. You can't get one without it.

Do you want to find out if your CSR is correctly generated? Once a CSR is created it is difficult to verify what information is contained in it because it is encoded. Since certificate authorities use the information in CSRs to create the certificate, you need to use CSR decoder to make sure the information is accurate.

To decode CSR and view the information inside of it, simply paste your CSR into the box above and the CSR decoder will do the rest.