What characters can be used in a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

Article number: [4572] - Legacy code: [12388]

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You may have discovered if you use any of these characters in the CSR that very odd things occur when asking a Certificate authority (CA) to generate a certificate:

 ! @ # $ % ^ * ( ) ~ ? > < / \

Please leave these symbols out of all fields in the CSR, this is standard industry policy.

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Last updated May 27, 2024