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CHAPTER 13
Certificates
This chapter explains how to use the certificates.
13.1 Certificates Overview
The NWA/WAC can use certificates (also called digital IDs) to authenticate users. Certificates are
based on public-private key pairs. A certificate contains the certificate owner’s identity and public
key. Certificates provide a way to exchange public keys for use in authentication.
A Certification Authority (CA) issues certificates and guarantees the identity of each certificate
owner. There are commercial certification authorities like CyberTrust or VeriSign and government
certification authorities. You can use the NWA/WAC to generate certification requests that contain
identifying information and public keys and then send the certification requests to a certification
authority.
13.2 Certificate Commands
This section describes the commands for configuring certificates.
13.3 Certificates Commands Input Values
The following table explains the values you can input with the certificate commands.
Table 41 Certificates Commands Input Values
LABEL DESCRIPTION
certificate_name The name of a certificate. You can use up to 31 alphanumeric and
;‘~!@#$%^&()_+[]{}’,.=-
characters.
cn_address A common name IP address identifies the certificate’s owner. Type the IP
address in dotted decimal notation.
cn_domain_name A common name domain name identifies the certificate’s owner. The domain
name is for identification purposes only and can be any string. The domain
name can be up to 255 characters. You can use alphanumeric characters, the
hyphen and periods.
cn_email A common name e-mail address identifies the certificate’s owner. The e-mail
address is for identification purposes only and can be any string. The e-mail
address can be up to 63 characters. You can use alphanumeric characters, the
hyphen, the @ symbol, periods and the underscore.
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