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| Chapter 18 Certificates | |
| Table 66 Certificates > My Certificate Create (continued) | ||
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| Common Name | Select a radio button to identify the certificate’s owner by IP |
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| address, domain name or |
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| dotted decimal notation), domain name or |
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| field provided. The domain name or |
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| ASCII characters. The domain name or |
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| identification purposes only and can be any string. |
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| Organizational Unit | Type up to 127 characters to identify the organizational unit or |
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| department to which the certificate owner belongs. You may use any |
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| character, including spaces, but the NWA drops trailing spaces. |
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| Organization | Type up to 127 characters to identify the company or group to which |
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| the certificate owner belongs. You may use any character, including |
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| spaces, but the NWA drops trailing spaces. |
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| Country | Type up to 127 characters to identify the nation where the |
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| certificate owner is located. You may use any character, including |
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| spaces, but the NWA drops trailing spaces. |
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| Key Length | Select a number from the |
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| many bits the key should use (512 to 2048). The longer the key, the |
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| more secure it is. A longer key also uses more PKI storage space. |
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| Enrollment Options | These radio buttons deal with how and when the certificate is to be |
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| generated. |
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| Create a self- | Select Create a |
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| signed certificate | the certificate and act as the Certification Authority (CA) itself. This |
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| way you do not need to apply to a certification authority for |
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| certificates. |
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| Create a | Select Create a certification request and save it locally for |
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| certification | later manual enrollment to have the NWA generate and store a |
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| request and save it | request for a certificate. Use the My Certificate Details screen to |
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| locally for later | view the certification request and copy it to send to the certification |
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| manual enrollment | authority. |
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| Copy the certification request from the My Certificate Details |
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| screen (Section 18.2.3 on page 225) and then send it to the |
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| certification authority. |
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| Create a | Select Create a certification request and enroll for a |
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| certification | certificate immediately online to have the NWA generate a |
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| request and enroll | request for a certificate and apply to a certification authority for a |
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| for a certificate | certificate. |
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| immediately online | You must have the certification authority’s certificate already |
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| imported in the Trusted CAs screen. |
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| When you select this option, you must select the certification |
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| authority’s enrollment protocol and the certification authority’s |
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| certificate from the |
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| authority’s server address. You also need to fill in the Reference |
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| Number and Key if the certification authority requires them. |
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