10: Security Settings
SSL Settings
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol for managing the security of data transmission over the Internet. It provides encryption, authentication, and message integrity services. SSL is widely used for secure communication to a web server, and also for wireless authentication.
Certificate/Private key combinations can be obtained from an external Certificate Authority (CA) and uploaded into the unit.
For more information regarding certificates and how to obtain them, see the chapter, Security in Detail.
Note: The blue text in the XML command strings of this chapter are to be replaced with a
Certificate and Key Generation
The PremierWave can generate self signed certificates and their corresponding keys. This can be done for both the rsa and dsa certificate formats. Certificates can be identified on the PremierWave by a name provided at generation time.
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Certificate Generation |
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Country (2 Letter Code) |
| Enter the |
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| Examples: US for United States and CA for Canada |
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State/Province |
| Enter the state or province to be assigned to the new |
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Locality (City) |
| Enter the city or locality to be assigned to the new |
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Organization |
| Enter the organization to be associated with the new |
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Organization Unit |
| Enter the organizational unit to be associated with the new |
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Common Name |
| Enter the common name to be associated with the new self signed |
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Expires |
| Enter the expiration date, in mm/dd/yyyy format, for the new |
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| Example: An expiration date of May 9, 2012 is entered as 05/09/2012. |
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