I work at a University that is a member of InCommon.  One of the benefits of joining InCommon is getting access to an unlimited number of TLS (SSL) certificates (including EV, client, and code-signing certs).  I recently decided that, instead of a traditional RSA cert, I wanted to get an ECC certificate.  In this post, I explain how to use OpenSSL to generate an ECC certificate request, in a way that InCommon (and COMODO) will accept.

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