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Types of Certificates in Certificate Manager 8950 AAA Certificate Manager
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Some additional properties of the Certificate type (also shown in Figure 22-10 ) are
explained in Table 22-2
Creating New Certificates
Each type of certificates, as specified in Table 22-3 , have different parameters or
properties to be filled in while creating a new certificate. These are explained in detail in
the following sections.
Creating a New File for the Root Certificate type
1. Click the Create Certificate action button, , to create a Certificate file in the
8950
AAA
run
directory.
Result:
The New Certificate dialog appears, as shown in Figure 22-10 .
Table 22-3 Certificate Manager–Types of Certificate (Additional Properties)
Certificate Types Description
Certificate Request Generates a key pair and a PKCS # 10 certificate
request which can be used to request a server
certificate.
The certificate request must be submitted to a
certificate authority to generate a server
certificate. The certificate authority will use its
root certificate to sign the server certificate. The
certificate request contains extensions suitable
for server authentication.
View Existing
Certificate Views the contents of an existing certificate file.
This includes PKCS #12 formatted certificates.