It is time to renew our SSL certificate on our retail website, and we need to change our SSL certificate from 1024-bit to 2048-bit. The vendor is requiring the 2048-bit length, now. We are using IIS 6. There is no option to create a new certificate (at least while the current one is installed), only to renew. The renew option won’t let you change the length. I have seen a few cases listed on the Internet where people have been told to create a temporary site and request the certificate for that site, then after processing the certificate on the temporary site, moving it to the real site.
Could I get some more detail on the steps for doing that. On the cases I read people seemed to have difficulty getting the certificate moved, and then things “magically worked”. I don’t want to have to depend on something “magically” working. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Karen