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Certificate Screen
12.1 Overview
This chapter describes how your ZyXEL Device can use certificates as a means of
authenticating wireless clients. It gives background information about public-key certificates
and explains how to use them.
A certificate contains the certificate owner’s identity and public key. Certificates provide a
way to exchange public keys for use in authentication.
Figure 54 Certificates Example
In the figure above, the ZyXEL Device (Z) checks the identity of the notebook (A) using a
certificate before granting access to the network.
12.2 What You Can Do in the Certificate Screen
Use the CERTIFICATES > Certificate screen (seen
) to view,
delete and import certificates.
12.3 What You Need To Know About Certificates
The certification authority certificate that you can import to your ZyXEL Device should be in
PFX PKCS#12 file format. This format referred to as the Personal Information Exchange
Syntax Standard is comprised of a private key-public certificate pair that is further encrypted
with a password. Before you import a certificate into the ZyXEL Device, you should verify
that you have the correct certificate.
Key distribution is simple and very secure since you can freely distribute public keys and you
never need to transmit private keys.