Chapter 33 Certificates

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 164 Configuration > Object > Certificate > Trusted Certificates > Edit

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Name

This field displays the identifying name of this certificate. You can change the name.

 

You can use up to 31 alphanumeric and ;‘~!@#$%^&()_+[]{}’,.=- characters.

 

 

Certification Path

Click the Refresh button to have this read-only text box display the end entity’s

 

certificate and a list of certification authority certificates that shows the hierarchy of

 

certification authorities that validate the end entity’s certificate. If the issuing

 

certification authority is one that you have imported as a trusted certificate, it may be

 

the only certification authority in the list (along with the end entity’s own certificate).

 

The ZyWALL does not trust the end entity’s certificate and displays “Not trusted” in this

 

field if any certificate on the path has expired or been revoked.

 

 

Refresh

Click Refresh to display the certification path.

 

 

Enable X.509v3 CRL

Select this check box to turn on/off certificate revocation. When it is turned on, the

Distribution Points

ZyWALL validates a certificate by getting Certificate Revocation List (CRL) through

and OCSP checking

HTTP or LDAP (can be configured after selecting the LDAP Server check box) and

 

online responder (can be configured after selecting the OCSP Server check box).

 

 

OCSP Server

Select this check box if the directory server uses OCSP (Online Certificate Status

 

Protocol).

 

 

URL

Type the protocol, IP address and path name of the OCSP server.

 

 

ID

The ZyWALL may need to authenticate itself in order to assess the OCSP server. Type

 

the login name (up to 31 ASCII characters) from the entity maintaining the server

 

(usually a certification authority).

 

 

Password

Type the password (up to 31 ASCII characters) from the entity maintaining the OCSP

 

server (usually a certification authority).

 

 

LDAP Server

Select this check box if the directory server uses LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access

 

Protocol). LDAP is a protocol over TCP that specifies how clients access directories of

 

certificates and lists of revoked certificates.

 

 

Address

Type the IP address (in dotted decimal notation) of the directory server.

 

 

Port

Use this field to specify the LDAP server port number. You must use the same server

 

port number that the directory server uses. 389 is the default server port number for

 

LDAP.

 

 

ID

The ZyWALL may need to authenticate itself in order to assess the CRL directory server.

 

Type the login name (up to 31 ASCII characters) from the entity maintaining the server

 

(usually a certification authority).

 

 

Password

Type the password (up to 31 ASCII characters) from the entity maintaining the CRL

 

directory server (usually a certification authority).

 

 

Certificate

These read-only fields display detailed information about the certificate.

Information

 

 

 

Type

This field displays general information about the certificate. CA-signed means that a

 

Certification Authority signed the certificate. Self-signed means that the certificate’s

 

owner signed the certificate (not a certification authority). X.509 means that this

 

certificate was created and signed according to the ITU-T X.509 recommendation that

 

defines the formats for public-key certificates.

 

 

Version

This field displays the X.509 version number.

 

 

Serial Number

This field displays the certificate’s identification number given by the certification

 

authority.

 

 

Subject

This field displays information that identifies the owner of the certificate, such as

 

Common Name (CN), Organizational Unit (OU), Organization (O) and Country (C).

 

 

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