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Certificates
18.1 Overview
This chapter describes how your NWA can use certificates as a means of authenticating wireless clients. It gives background information about
A certificate contains the certificate owner’s identity and public key. Certificates provide a way to exchange public keys for use in authentication.
Figure 129 Certificates Example
In the figure above, the NWA (Z) checks the identity of the notebook (A) using a certificate before granting it access to the network.
18.2What You Can Do in the Certificates Screen
•Use the Certificates > My Certificate (see Chapter 18 on page 214) screens to view details of certificates storage space and settings. This screen also allows you to import or create a new certificate.
•Use the Certificates > Trusted CAs (see Chapter 18 on page 219) screens to save CA certificates to the NWA. This screen displays a summary list of certificates of the certification authorities that you have set the NWA to accept as trusted.
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