Manage Certificate Authorities (Cas) - Digi TransPort WR11 User Manual

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Manage Certificate Authorities (CAs)

A certificate authority (CA) is a trusted third party that issues digital certificates for use by other
parties. digital certificates issued by the CA contain a public key.
The certificate also contains information about the individual or organization to which the public key
belongs.
A CA verifies digital certificate applicant's credentials.
The CA certificate allows verification of digital certificates and the information contained therein,
issued by that CA.
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Go to Administration > X.509 Certificate Management > Certificate Authorities.
Installed Certificate Authority Certificates
This table lists the current CA certificates that have been installed onto the router. Use the View
button to view the contents of each certificate.
Upload CA Certificates
Use the Choose File and Upload buttons to upload CA Certificates from a host PC onto the router.
Obtain CA certificates from a SCEP Server
The Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) allows the user to request and enroll CA
certificates from a CA server.
The CA certificate files are automatically stored with the name CA<n>.pem, where n increments with
each certificate.
SCEP Server IP address
The IP address of the SCEP server/CA server.
Port
The port on which SCEP server is listening. If the port is 0, the router uses default port of 80.
Path
The path on the server to the SCEP application. The path can either be entered manually if known, or
select from cgi-bin or Microsoft SCEP from the drop-down list.
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