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• Binary X.509: This is an ITU-T recommendation that defines the formats for X.509
certificates.
• PEM (Base-64) encoded X.509: This Privacy Enhanced Mail format uses 64 ASCII
characters to convert a binary X.509 certificate into a printable form.
• Binary PKCS#7: This is a standard that defines the general syntax for data (including
digital signatures) that may be encrypted. The ZyWALL currently allows the importation
of a PKS#7 file that contains a single certificate.
• PEM (Base-64) encoded PKCS#7: This Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format uses 64
ASCII characters to convert a binary PKCS#7 certificate into a printable form.
15.6 Importing a Certificate
Click CERTIFICATES, My Certificates and then Import to open the My Certificate
Import screen. Follow the instructions in this screen to save an existing certificate to the
ZyWALL, see the following figure.
Note: You can only import a certificate that matches a corresponding certification
request that was generated by the ZyWALL.
The certificate you import replaces the corresponding request in the My
Certificates screen.
You must remove any spaces from the certificate’s filename before you can
import it.
Figure 120 My Certificate Import