Generating Your Own Certificates - Siemens SINAMICS S120 Function Manual

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13.2 Fundamentals

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Generating your own certificates

You can either generate your own certificates for the secured data connection or purchase

them from a certification authority (CA). In these cases, a server certificate and a private server

key are supplied.

● Server certificate:

● Private server key:

Certification authorities, from which you can purchase a certificate can be found on the Internet;

the same is true for software so that you can generate a certificate yourself, e.g. OpenSSL.

Using your own certificate

Requirements

You have a suitable SD card for your converter.

You have a server certificate and a private server key.

<IP addr>.TLS.crt

<IP addr>.TLS.key

Example: 192.168.2.90.TLS.crt

Example: 192.168.2.90.TLS.key

Function Manual, 06/2019, 6SL3097-5AB00-0BP2

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