13
Certificates
13.1 Overview
This chapter describes how your ZyXEL Device 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 96 Certificates Example
In the figure above, the ZyXEL Device (Z) checks the identity of the notebook (A) using a certificate before granting it access to the network.
13.1.1 What You Can Do in the Certificates Screens
Use the Trusted CAs screens (Section 13.2 on page 230) to save CA certificates to the ZyXEL Device.
13.1.2 What You Need to Know About Certificates
Certification Authority
A Certification Authority (CA) issues certificates and guarantees the identity of each certificate owner. There are commercial certification authorities like CyberTrust or VeriSign and government certification authorities. You can use the ZyXEL Device to generate certification requests that contain identifying
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