Secure Connections 

9. Select 

Next. 

10. Enter the City/Town of your organization.  

11. Enter the State/Province of your organization.  

12. Enter the name of your Organization.  

13. Enter the Common Name. Typically, this is your name or the domain name 

associated with your site.   

14. Enter your E mail address.  

15. Enter the Unit or name of your department, such as "Information Systems."  

16. Enter the two letter Country code for your organization s nation.  

17. Select Next.  

18. Select the Set up CuteFTP to use the generated certificate check box   the 

wizard automatically associates the certificate to CuteFTP. It can be unassociated by 

clearing the Use SSL Certificate check box in Tools > Global Options > Security 

> SSL. If the check box is cleared, the wizard only saves the certificate files in the 

folder originally specified. 

19. Select Finish. 

20. CuteFTP displays the paths to all the files generated for your certificate. If you want 

a third party to sign your certificate, you must send the Certificate Signing Request 

(.csr) file to the third party.   

C

ONFIGURATION 

N

OTES

Not all SSL sites require certificates. 

When you create a certificate CuteFTP generates the following files: 

A Private key file (.key)   The private key should never be distributed to 

anyone. It is used to decrypt sessions encrypted by a public key. 

A Certificate request file (.csr)   This file can be signed by GlobalSCAPE 

Secure FTP Server s Certificate Signing Utility or sent to an intermediate 

Certificate Authority such as Verisign or Thawte for signing. 

A Certificate file (.crt)   This is a signed certificate, whether self signed or 

signed by an intermediate certificate authority.  

If the server accepts self signed certificates, you can connect with the .crt file and 

.key file you created and associated to CuteFTP, provided the server has added your 

certificate to its trusted list. 

You can export certificates (.crt files) from CuteFTP's Trusted certificate store, 

located under Global Options > Security, SSL Security.  

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