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Guidelines – Allied Telesis AT-S62 User Manual

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Chapter 32: PKI Certificates and SSL

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Section VII: Management Security

Guidelines

Here are guidelines to creating certificates:

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A certificate can have only one public key.

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A switch can only use those certificates with keys it generated itself.

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You can create multiple certificates on a switch, but the device will only
use the certificate whose key pair has been designated as the active
key pair for the switch’s web server.

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Most web browsers support both unsecured (plaintext) and secured
(encrypted) operation. These modes are referred to as HTTP and
HTTPS, respectively. If you choose to use encryption when you
manage a switch, the web browser you use must support HTTPS.