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ProSafe Wireless-N 8-Port Gigabit VPN Firewall FVS318N

•Self Certificate Requests table. Contains the self-signed certificate requests that you generated. These requests might or might not have been submitted to CAs, and CAs might or might not have issued digital certificates for these requests. Only the self-signed certificates in the Active Self Certificates table are active on the wireless VPN firewall (see Manage VPN Self-Signed Certificates on page 316).

•Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) table. Contains the lists with digital certificates that have been revoked and are no longer valid, that were issued by CAs, and that you uploaded. Note, however, that the table displays only the active CAs and their critical release dates. (see Manage the VPN Certificate Revocation List on page 320).

Manage VPN CA Certificates

To view and upload trusted certificates:

Select VPN > Certificates. The Certificates screen displays. (The following figure shows the top section of the screen with the trusted certificate information and an example certificate in the Trusted Certificates [CA Certificate] table.)

Figure 191. Certificates, screen 1 of 3

The Trusted Certificates (CA Certificate) table lists the digital certificates of CAs and contains the following fields:

•CA Identity (Subject Name). The organization or person to whom the digital certificate is issued.

•Issuer Name. The name of the CA that issued the digital certificate.

•Expiry Time. The date after which the digital certificate becomes invalid.

To upload a digital certificate of a trusted CA on the wireless VPN firewall:

1. Download a digital certificate file from a trusted CA and store it on your computer.

2. In the Upload Trusted Certificates section of the screen, click the Browse button and navigate to the trusted digital certificate file that you downloaded on your computer.

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