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ZyWALL P1 User’s Guide
156 Chapter 10 Certificates
10.7 Creating a Certificate
Click CERTIFICATES , My Certificates and then Create to open the My Certificate
Create screen. Use this screen to have the ZyWALL create a self-signed certificate, enroll a
certificate with a certification authority or generate a certification request, see the following
figure.
Figure 64 Certificate: My Certificate: Create
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 52 Certificate: My Certificate: Create
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Certificate Name Type up to 31 ASCII characters (not including spaces) to identify this
certificate.
Subject Information Use these fields to record information that identifies the owner of the
certificate. You do not have to fill in every field, although the Common Name is
mandatory. The certification authority may add fields (such as a serial number)
to the subject information when it issues a certificate. It is recommended that
each certificate have unique subject information.