Allied Telesis AT-S60 - Manual (Page 342)

AT-S60 Management Software User’s Guide
Section III: Security Features 341
Encryption Overview
This chapter describes the data security services available on the switch,
how the services are provided, the switch network functions which use
these services, and how to monitor the services.
The encryption, or ENCO, feature provides encryption to other switch
software modules (referred to as user modules).
The ENCO feature provides the following data security services:
❑ data encryption
❑ data authentication
❑ key exchange algorithms
❑ key creation and storage
The procedures in this chapter discuss how to configure a distinguish
name and keys for encryption. To configure SSL, there are additional
procedures you need to configure. For an comprehensive procedure
that describes all the steps necessary for configuring SSL, see
Configuring SSL Certificates on page 337.