Certificates

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The card Certificates offers the possibility to manage your certificates and certificates of other Firewalls. These certificates are managed by three element groups (Host certificates, CA certificates, Private keys).

 

Host certificate

 

Host certificates are created at this firewall or at another one to authenticate to each other (public key).

 

File name: Shows the name of the certificate.
Organization: Shows the organization of the certificate.
Owner: Shows the owner of the certificate.
Email: Shows the email address of the owner.
Expiration date: Shows the expiration date of the certificate.
Delete marked entries delete: Mark the entries in the element group by activating the checkbox and click this button in the heading line afterwards to delete the marked entries.
Delete certificate delete: Click this button to delete the user certificate.
Download certificate download: Click this button to download the user certificate to your computer.
Add certificate: Click this button to upload a new user certificate. The browser will redirect you to a form where you can upload your user certificate.

 

CA certificate

 

CA certificates are certificates from common certification authorities who sign certificates.

 

File name: Shows the name of the certificate.
Organization: Shows the organization of the certificate.
Owner: Shows the owner of the certificate.
Email: Shows the email address of the owner.
Expiration date: Shows the expiration date of the certificate.
Delete marked entries delete: Mark the entries in the element group by activating the checkbox and click this button in the heading line afterwards to delete the marked entries.
Delete certificate delete: Click this button to delete the user certificate.
Download certificate download: Click this button to download the user certificate to your computer.
Add certificate: Click this button to upload a new user certificate. The browser will redirect you to a form where you can upload your user certificate.

 

Private keys

 

The private keys are the part of a key pair that you should not give to another. It is the private part of the host certificates.

 

Create certificate

 

Generate cert: Click this button to generate a new cert. The browser will redirect to a detail form where you can perform the creation.
Generate client cert: Click this button to generate a new client certificate. You can use the certificates signed by a CA which allow client-to-network VPN connections with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows XP. The browser will redirect to a form where you can perform the generation.