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Chapter 8
Configuring Digital Certificates
Overview
Digital Certificate Terms and Acronyms
This chapter describes how to configure digital certificates; it contains the following
sections:
Overview on page 213
Platform Considerations on page 214
References on page 214
IKE Authentication with Digital Certificates on page 215
IKE Authentication Using Public Keys Without Digital Certificates on page 220
Configuring Digital Certificates Using the Offline Method on page 221
Configuring Digital Certificates Using the Online Method on page 227
Configuring Peer Public Keys Without Digital Certificates on page 232
Monitoring Digital Certificates and Public Keys on page 237
You can use digital certificates in place of preshared keys for IKE negotiations. For
more information about IKE, see "IKE Overview" on page 140 in "Configuring IPSec"
on page 125.
Table 14 on page 213 describes terms and abbreviations that are used in this discussion
of digital certificates.
Table 14: Digital Certificate Terms and Acronyms
Term or
Abbreviation
Description
3DES
Triple DES encryption/decryption algorithm
Base64
Method used to encode certificate requests and certificates before they are
sent to or from the CA
CA
Certificate authority; an organization that creates digital certificates
Certificate
Binds a person or entity to a public key using a digital signature
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