Certificates; Chapter 12 Certificates; Overview; What You Can Do In The Certificates Screens - ZyXEL Communications P-660HN User Manual

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12.1 Overview

This chapter describes how your ZyXEL Device can use certificates as a means of
authenticating wireless clients. It gives background information about public-key certificates
and explains how to use them.
A certificate contains the certificate owner's identity and public key. Certificates provide a
way to exchange public keys for use in authentication.

Figure 107 Certificates Example

In the figure above, the ZyXEL Device (Z) checks the identity of the notebook (A) using a
certificate before granting it access to the network.

12.1.1 What You Can Do in the Certificates Screens

• Use the My Certificates screens
signed certificates or certification requests and import the ZyXEL Device's CA-signed

certificates.

• Use the Trusted CAs screens
ZyXEL Device.
• Use the Trusted Remote Hosts screens
certificates.
• Use the Directory Servers screens
addresses of directory servers (that contain lists of valid and revoked certificates).
P-660HN-Fx User's Guide
Certificates
(Section 12.2 on page 186) to generate and export self-
(Section 12.3 on page 194) to save CA certificates to the
(Section 12.4 on page
(Section 12.5 on page
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199) to import self-signed
204) to configure a list of
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