Manage Users, Authentication, and VPN Certificates
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NETGEAR ProSAFE VPN Firewall FVS318G v2
The Certificates screen displays. Scroll down.
3.
In the Generate Self Certificate Request section of the screen, enter the settings as
described in the following table:
Table 72. Generate self-signed certificate request settings
Setting
Description
Name
A descriptive name of the domain for identification and management purposes.
Subject
The name that other organizations see as the holder (owner) of the certificate. In
general, use your registered business name or official company name for this
purpose.
Note:
Generally, all of your certificates should use the same value in the
Subject
field.
Hash Algorithm
From the list, select the hash algorithm:
•
MD5
. A 128-bit (16-byte) message digest, slightly faster than SHA-1.
•
SHA-1
. A 160-bit (20-byte) message digest, slightly stronger than MD5.
Signature Algorithm
Although this seems to be a list, the only possible selection is
RSA
. In other
words, RSA is the default to generate a CSR.
