448CHAPTER 13: CRYPTOGRAPHY COMMANDS

crypto ca-certificateInstalls a certificate authority’s own PKCS #7 certificate into the WX certificate and key storage area.

Syntax crypto ca-certificate {admin eap webaaa}

PEM-formatted certificate

„admin — Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the administrative certificate for the WX switch.

The administrative certificate authenticates the WX to 3Com wireless switch manager (3XWM) or Web Manager.

„eap — Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) certificate for the WX switch.

The EAP certificate authenticates the WX to 802.1X supplicants (clients).

„webaaa — Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the WebAAA certificate for the WX switch.

The Web certificate authenticates the WX to clients who use WebAAA.

„PEM-formatted certificate — ASCII text representation of the certificate authority PKCS #7 certificate, consisting of up to

4096 characters that you have obtained from the certificate authority.

Defaults — None.

Access — Enabled.

History —Introduced in MSS Version 3.0.

Usage — The Privacy-Enhanced Mail protocol (PEM) format is used for representing a PKCS #7 certificate in ASCII text. PEM uses base64 encoding to convert the certificate to ASCII text, then puts the encoded text between the following delimiters:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

-----END CERTIFICATE-----

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