Also, does anything in the process need the privkey.pem file that is created once the cert and key are created?
privkey.pem is not needed by the process of certificate generation once the request is generate, but you'll need it once you want to use this certificate to authenticate yourself, for example when opening a SSL connection or signing an email.
I'm not sure if i did understand your problem, in case I missed please clarify your needs.
Ted, thanks for your reply.
To clarify the above question, once the certificate has been generated and signed, is it necessary that the file privkey.pem be present for normal encryption and decryption of html data transmissions. If it is needed I don't see where in the sslconf file it is referenced.
Thanks,
Ken
