Chapter 8 System

1Telnet

2HTTP

Certificate

A certificate contains the certificate owner’s identity and public key. Certificates provide a way to exchange public keys for use in authentication.

Figure 46 Certificates Example

In the figure above, the NWA (Z) checks the identity of the notebook (A) using a certificate before granting access to the network.

The certification authority certificate that you can import to your NWA should be in PFX PKCS#12 file format. This format referred to as the Personal Information Exchange Syntax Standard is comprised of a private key-public certificate pair that is further encrypted with a password. Before you import a certificate into the NWA, you should verify that you have the correct certificate.

Key distribution is simple and very secure since you can freely distribute public keys and you never need to transmit private keys.

8.4 WWW Screen

Use this screen to configure your NWA via the World Wide Web (WWW) using a Web browser. This lets you specify which IP addresses or computers are able to communicate with and access the NWA.

 

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