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ISSUE -: I want to purchase/deploy SSL certificates for my connect server.

SOLUTION -: This document is valid for software/hardware SSL configuration with Adobe connect server.

1. Download Openssl from here openssl

2. Follow the steps 2,3 and 4 from kbdoc http://blogs.adobe.com/connectsupport/generating-self-signed-certificates-for-adobe-connect/

3. Open command prompt and execute the command

cd C:\openssl\bin

openssl req -new -nodes -keyout myserver.key -out server.csr -newkey rsa:2048

This creates a two files on C:\openssl\bin

The file myserver.key contains a private key; do not disclose this file to anyone.

The file server.csr is Certificate Signing Request (CSR).

You will now be asked to enter details to be entered into your CSR.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.

For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter ‘.’, the field will be left blank.

—–
Country Name (2 letter code) [US]: US
State or Province Name (full name) []: Texas
Locality Name (eg, city) []: Houston
Organization Name (eg, company) []: Your Company
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: Your Department
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []: my.connect.server.com
Email Address []:

Please enter the following ‘extra’ attributes to be sent with your certificate request

A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
—–

Use the name of the connect server domain name as Common Name (CN).

The fields optional company name and challenge password can be left blank

Your CSR would now have been created on C:\openssl\bin . Open the server.csr in a text editor and copy and paste the contents into the trusted Certificates Issuing Authority (CIA) ( like verisign , thawte) enrollment form where you are requesting the SSL certificates to be generated.

Once the SSL certificates has been published via CIA  you can use it as SSL certificate file along with the key file myserver.key generated on step 3

PROBLEM -: I want to generate self signed certificates for our internal testing purpose. I need to apply SSL certificates on my connect server

SOLUTION :-

Please note that Adobe does not supports self signed certificates on production enviroment.

This is for internal testing purpose.

1. Download OpenSSL , You can download it from here openssl

2.Extract it on C:\

3. Windows 7/vista users might have to gain/allow the administrative rights prompt to extract/copy the files on C:\ , Alternate is to copy the openssl.zip file on any other location , unzip it and copy the extracted openssl folder on C:\

4. Make sure that the openssl.exe is located on C:\openssl\bin folder

5. Open command prompt and execute the command

cd C:\openssl\bin

openssl.exe req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout meeting-domain.com.key -out meeting-domain.com.crt

Provide the following information while generating the certificate files

Country Name

State/Province Name

Locality Name

Organization Name

Organization Unit Name

Common Name 

EMail Address

I have attached a screenshot for reference , Make sure that you provide the exact domain name of your connect server on common name information as highlighted in screenshot as well as in above step

When the process is completed , This would generate two files on C:\openssl\bin named as -:

meeting-domain.com.crt      –> Certificate file.

meeting-domain.com.key    –> Key file.

These two files (Certificate and key file)  are self signed SSL certificates and can be used to secure either the meeting connection or application server having the domain name my.connect.server.domain.com  as per the screenshot or as per the common name provided by you.

You can follow the SSL KB Doc to configure the SSL certificate/key file on your Adobe connect server