Certificate File Formats; Importing A Certificate - ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL 5 User Manual

14.5 Certificate File Formats

The certification authority certificate that you want to import has to be in one of these file formats:
Binary X.509: This is an ITU-T recommendation that defines the formats for X.509
certificates.
PEM (Base-64) encoded X.509: This Privacy Enhanced Mail format uses 64 ASCII characters
to convert a binary X.509 certificate into a printable form.
Binary PKCS#7: This is a standard that defines the general syntax for data (including digital
signatures) that may be encrypted. The ZyWALL currently allows the importation of a PKS#7
file that contains a single certificate.
PEM (Base-64) encoded PKCS#7: This Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format uses 64 ASCII
characters to convert a binary PKCS#7 certificate into a printable form.

14.6 Importing a Certificate

Click CERTIFICATES, My Certificates and then Import to open the My Certificate Import
screen. Follow the instructions in this screen to save an existing certificate to the ZyWALL, see the
following figure.
1. You can only import a certificate that matches a
corresponding certification request that was generated by the
ZyWALL.
2. The certificate you import replaces the corresponding
request in the My Certificates screen.
3. You must remove any spaces from the certificate's filename
before you can import it.
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