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CERTIFICATE SIGNING REQUEST
Request a certificate signature from a remote CA. Using an established, third-party CA increases the likelihood
that your certificate will be trusted by others (see
information).
Generate a certificate signing request
field) and downloading the CSR. The CSR can then be sent to a remote CA for a signature. Once the certificate
has been signed, import the certificate in PEM or PKCS #12 format.
When you export the CSR, select a Digest, or
security. More security requires more router resources.
• MD5
• SHA-128
• SHA-256
PEM
PEM is a container format for encoding data – in this case,
X.509 certificates. PEM was originally designed for encoding
email (PEM stands for Privacy-enhanced Electronic
it has never been widely used for that purpose. The format is
much more common for encoding digital certificates.
The PEM format uses Base64
Rules) encoding.
To import, choose a certificate file in PEM format from your
computer or local device and upload it to the router. Give the
certificate a name that is meaningful to you.
To export, select a local certificate from the dropdown list and
download it to your computer or local device in PEM format.
PKCS12
PKCS #12 is one of the public-key cryptography
keys in an archive file format. The PKCS #12 container format is more secure than the PEM container format
because it is protected by an encryption key.
To import, choose a certificate file in PKCS #12 format from your computer or local device and upload it to the
router. Give the certificate a name that is meaningful to you. PKCS #12 files are protected by a passphrase – you
must know this key to import the file.
security issues
(CSR) by selecting a certificate from the dropdown list (Certificate Name
cryptographic hash
Mail), but
and DER (Distinguished Encoding
standards. PKCS #12 files bundle public and private certificate
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for self-signed certificates for more
function. These are listed in order of increasing
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