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Certificates

This chapter explains how to use the Certificates.

32.1 Certificates Overview

The ZyWALL can use certificates (also called digital IDs) to authenticate users. Certificates are based on public-private key pairs. A certificate contains the certificate owner’s identity and public key. Certificates provide a way to exchange public keys for use in authentication.

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 ZyWALL to generate certification requests that contain identifying information and public keys and then send the certification requests to a certification authority.

32.2 Certificate Commands

This section describes the commands for configuring certificates.

32.3 Certificates Commands Input Values

The following table explains the values you can input with the certificate commands.

Table 155 Certificates Commands Input Values

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

certificate_name

The name of a certificate. You can use up to 31 alphanumeric and

 

;‘~!@#$%^&()_+[]{}’,.=- characters.

 

 

cn_address

A common name IP address identifies the certificate’s owner. Type the IP address in

 

dotted decimal notation.

 

 

cn_domain_name

A common name domain name identifies the certificate’s owner. The domain name is

 

for identification purposes only and can be any string. The domain name can be up

 

to 255 characters. You can use alphanumeric characters, the hyphen and periods.

 

 

cn_email

A common name e-mail address identifies the certificate’s owner. The e-mail address

 

is for identification purposes only and can be any string. The e-mail address can be

 

up to 63 characters. You can use alphanumeric characters, the hyphen, the @

 

symbol, periods and the underscore.

 

 

organizational_unit

Identify the organizational unit or department to which the certificate owner

 

belongs. You can use up to 31 characters. You can use alphanumeric characters, the

 

hyphen and the underscore.

 

 

 

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