-private key, or 'openssl gendsa' if you want a DSA private key. More
-info on how to handle these commands are found in the manual pages for
-those commands or by running them with the argument '-h'. For the
-sake of the description in this file, let's assume that the private
-key ended up in the file privkey.pem (which is the default in some
-cases).
-
-
-Let's start with the most normal way of getting a certificate. Most
-often, you want or need to get a certificate from a certificate
-authority. To handle that, the certificate authority needs a
-certificate request (or, as some certificate authorities like to put
+private key, or 'openssl gendsa' if you want a DSA private key.
+Further information on how to create private keys can be found in
+another HOWTO <keys.txt?>. The rest of this text assumes you have
+a private key in the file privkey.pem.
+
+
+3. Creating a certificate request
+
+To create a certificate, you need to start with a certificate
+request (or, as some certificate authorities like to put