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Create a New Certificate 111

To view basic information about all available certificates, use the /info/certs command.

Note: Only certificates having the basic constraint CA:TRUE can be used for generating client certificates. When generating a client certificate, the VPN Gateway automatically checks that the current certificate has this constraint. To perform this check yourself, use the /cfg/cert #/show command and look for lines containing the text X509v3 Basic Constraints:CA:TRUEFALSE in the screen output.

2When prompted, provide the following information to include in the client certificate:

Note that you do not have to complete all fields. Only one of Common Name and E-mail Address is strictly required.

•Country Name (2 letter code): The two-letter ISO code for the country in which the subject resides. With subject is meant the person for whom the client certificate is created. For current information about ISO country codes, visit for example http://www.iana.org/.

•State or Province Name (full name): The full name of the state or province in which the subject resides.

•Locality Name (for example, city): The name of the city or town where the subject resides.

•Organization Name (for example., company): The registered name of the organization to which the subjects belongs. Do not abbreviate the organization name and do not use the following characters: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ?

•Organizational Unit Name (for example,, section): The unit name of the organization to which the subject belongs.

•Common Name (for example,, the subject’s name): The full name of the subject.

•E-mail Address: The full e-mail address of the subject.

•Subject alternative name: Comma-separated list of URI:<uri>, DNS:<fqdn>, IP:<ip address>, email:<e-mail address>. Example:

URI:http://www.example.com,email:john@example

.com,IP:10.1.2.3

3Specify the validity period, key size, and serial number.

After having provided information about the subject, you are now ready to specify information relating to the client certificate itself.

Decide how many days the client certificate should be valid. By default, each new client certificate is set to be valid for 365 days. Also decide which key size should be used. The default key

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NN46120-104 02.01 Standard

14 April 2008

NN46120-104 specifications

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Nortel Networks NN46120-104 manual Specify the validity period, key size, and serial number

Models: NN46120-104

.com,IP:10.1.2.3

3Specify the validity period, key size, and serial number.

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