Alcatel-Lucent 8950 AAA User Manual page 369

22 8950 AAA Certificate
Manager
Overview
Purpose
This chapter discusses the 8950 AAA Certificate Manager, also known as aaa-cert. Root
certificates generated with aaa-cert are self-signed certificates. This means that in order for
a client or server to verify the certificates signed by an aaa-cert root certificate, they must
install the root certificates as a trusted certificate authorities.
The following topics are included in this chapter:
Types of Certificates
The Certificate Manager Panel
Requirements for Using the Certificate Manager
Types of Certificates in Certificate Manager
Procedures for Creating Certificates
Notes on Using Certificates
How to Configure for a TLS Demo Out of the Box
Types of Certificates
About Types of certificates
The aaa-cert tool generates three types of certificates:
Root Certificates
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Server Certificates
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Client Certificates
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