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Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

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You can use the APC Security Wizard, provided on the APC Battery Management System Utility CD, to create a certificate signing request to an external Certificate Authority, or if you do not want to use an existing Certificate Authority, you can create an APC root certificate to upload to a browser’s certificate store (cache). You can also use the Wizard to create a server certificate to upload to the Battery Management System.

See Creating and Installing Digital Certificates for a summary of how these certificates are used.

To create certificates and certificate requests, see Using the APC Security Wizard.

SSL also uses various algorithms and encryption ciphers to authenticate the server, encrypt data, and ensure the integrity of the data (i.e., that it has not been intercepted and sent by another server).

See CipherSuite to select which authentication and encryption algorithms to use.

Web browsers cache (save) Web pages that you recently accessed and allow you to return to those pages without re- entering your user name and password. Always close your browser session before you leave your computer unattended.

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