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Prepare for SSL Communication

To enable SSL communication between the RiskMinder components, you must first obtain server and client certificates. You can obtain these certificate by using one of the following methods:

When a CA generates a certificate for you (as discussed in section, "Obtaining Certificates Directly Through a Certificate Authority (CA)"), they also generate the private key associated with the certificate. As a result, the private key might not be as secure as when it is generated at your end. If you do not want the key to be generated "off site", then you must follow the steps in "Generating Certificate Requests by Using a Utility".