On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Steven Funasaki
<thegreatste...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does the CSR need to be signed with the matching private key for the CA to
> validate it?

Of course.  That demonstrates proof of possession of the private key.
Otherwise there is no binding of an entity to a keypair, and no cert
can have any validity whatsoever.  What precisely do you think a
certificate is?

- M
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