Using Enhanced Security Features

Importing a CA Certificate

Depending on the CA that you use, you could receive a single certificate or a certificate chain. If the reply is a single certificate and it is not a copy of a CA trusted root certificate, you need acquire the certificate for a trusted root. If the reply from the CA is a chain itself, you only need the root, or top-level certificate in the chain.

If the trusted root certificate is not a file by itself, copy and paste it to a new file.

Use the keytool command to install the trusted root certificate from the CA into the keystore for the EncrypTight software. The CA certificate can be used to validate the public key of the CA that you use.

To install a CA certificate:

1From the command line, import the CA certificate into the keystore with the keytool -importcommand.

keytool -importcert -alias <alias> -file <filename> -keystore <keystore> -storepass <password>

Table 71 Keytool Parameters for Importing a CA Certificate

Parameter

Description

alias

The name of the entry for this certificate in the keystore.

file

The name and location of the certificate file.

keystore

The name and location of the keystore file.

storepass

The password for the keystore.

 

 

For example:

keytool -importcert -alias CACert -file C:\docs\CACart.cer -keystore C:\Safe\mykeystore -storepass password2

This imports the CA certificate into the keystore.

Importing a CA Certificate Reply

Once you have a certificate of the CA to which you submitted your certificate signing request, you can import the certificate reply from the CA.

To import a CA certificate reply:

1From the command line, use the following command to import the certificate: keytool -importcert-trustcacerts-file <filename>

Where filename is the name of the certificate file that you want to import.

For example:

keytool -importcert -trustcerts -file c:\docs\ETKMS3.cer

This imports the certificate file named “ETKMS3.cer” into the keystore.

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