3Com WX4400 3CRWX440095A manual Pkcs Object Files Supported by 3Com, File Type Standard Purpose

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„EAP certificate—Used by the WX switch to authenticate itself to EAP clients.

„WebAAA certificate—Used by the WX switch to authenticate itself to WebAAA clients, who use a web page served by a WX switch to log onto the network.

„Certificate authority (CA) certificates—Used by the WX switch in addition to the certificates listed above, when those certificates are from the CA.

The Admin, EAP, and WebAAA certificates can be generated by the WX switch (self-signed) or generated and signed by a CA. If they are signed by a CA, the CA’s own certificate is also required.

PKCS #7, PKCS #10, Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) are encryption interface and PKCS #12 Object standards created by RSA Data Security, Inc., that provide a file format for

Files transferring data and cryptographic information. 3Com supports the PKCS object files listed in Table 36.

Table 36 PKCS Object Files Supported by 3Com

File Type	Standard	Purpose
PKCS #7	Cryptographic Message	Contains a digital certificate signed by a
	Syntax Standard	CA.
		To install the certificate from a PKCS #7
		file, use the crypto certificate command
		to prepare MSS to receive the certificate,
		then copy and paste the certificate into
		the CLI.
		A PKCS #7 file does not contain the public
		key to go with the certificate. Before you
		generate the CSR and instal the
		certificate, you must generate the
		public-private key pair using the crypto
		generate key command.
PKCS #10	Certification Request	Contains a Certificate Signing Request
	Syntax Standard	(CSR), a special file with encoded
		information needed to request a digital
		certificate from a CA.
		To generate the request, use the crypto
		generate request command. Copy and
		paste the results directly into a browser
		window on the CA server, or into a file to
		send to the CA server.