Chapter 15 Certificates

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 79 SECURITY > CERTIFICATES > My Certificates > Export

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Export the certificate in

Binary X.509 is an ITU-T recommendation that defines the formats for X.509

binary X.509 format.

certificates.

Export the certificate

PKCS#12 is a format for transferring public key and private key certificates.

along with the

You can also password-encrypt the private key in the PKCS #12 file. The

corresponding private

file’s password is not connected to your certificate’s public or private

key in PKCS#12 format.

passwords.

Password

Type the file’s password to use for encrypting the private key. The password

 

is optional, although you must specify one if you want to be able to import the

 

PKCS#12 format certificate into Netscape version 7.2.

Retype to confirm

Type the password to make sure that you have entered it correctly.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply and then Save in the File Download screen. The Save As

 

screen opens, browse to the location that you want to use and click Save.

Cancel

Click Cancel to quit and return to the My Certificates screen.

 

 

15.8 My Certificate Import

Click SECURITY > CERTIFICATES > My Certificates and then Import to open the My Certificate Import screen. Follow the instructions in this screen to save an existing certificate from a computer to the ZyWALL.

•You can only import a certificate that matches a corresponding certification request that was generated by the ZyWALL (the certification request contains the private key). The certificate you import replaces the corresponding request in the My Certificates screen. One exception is that you can import a PKCS#12 format certificate without a corresponding certification request since the certificate includes the private key.

•You must remove any spaces from the certificate’s filename before you can import it.

15.8.1Certificate File Formats

The certification authority certificate that you want to import has to be in one of these file formats:

•Binary X.509: This is an ITU-T recommendation that defines the formats for X.509 certificates.

•PEM (Base-64) encoded X.509: This Privacy Enhanced Mail format uses 64 ASCII characters to convert a binary X.509 certificate into a printable form.

•Binary PKCS#7: This is a standard that defines the general syntax for data (including digital signatures) that may be encrypted. The ZyWALL currently allows the importation of a PKS#7 file that contains a single certificate.

•PEM (Base-64) encoded PKCS#7: This Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format uses 64 ASCII characters to convert a binary PKCS#7 certificate into a printable form.

 

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