ZyWALL 2 Series User’s Guide

 

Table 15-4 My Certificate Details

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Certificate in PEM

This read-only text box displays the certificate or certification request in Privacy

(Base-64) Encoded

Enhanced Mail (PEM) format. PEM uses 64 ASCII characters to convert the binary

Format

certificate into a printable form.

 

You can copy and paste a certification request into a certification authority’s web

 

page, an e-mail that you send to the certification authority or a text editor and save

 

the file on a management computer for later manual enrollment.

 

You can copy and paste a certificate into an e-mail to send to friends or colleagues

 

or you can copy and paste a certificate into a text editor and save the file on a

 

management computer for later distribution (via floppy disk for example).

Export

Click this button and then Save in the File Download screen. The Save As screen

 

opens, browse to the location that you want to use and click Save.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyWALL. You can only change the

 

name, except in the case of a self-signed certificate, which you can also set to be

 

the default self-signed certificate that signs the imported trusted remote host

 

certificates.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to quit and return to the My Certificates screen.

 

 

15.9 Trusted CAs

Click CERTIFICATES, Trusted CAs to open the Trusted CAs screen. This screen displays a summary list of certificates of the certification authorities that you have set the ZyWALL to accept as trusted. The ZyWALL accepts any valid certificate signed by a certification authority on this list as being trustworthy; thus you do not need to import any certificate that is signed by one of these certification authorities. See the following figure.

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Certificates