Showing the Contents of a Certificate Signing Request

# ./usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl req -noout \     -text  -in www.example.com.csr

Certificate signing requests are stored in a special, compact form. This command will show the contents of the certificate stored in www.example.com.csr in a human-readable form. As mentioned earlier in the chapter, the certificate will contain information about the entity requesting it, the contents of the public key, and a signature made with the private key.