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Certificates
21.1 Overview
The EMG 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.
21.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter
• Use the
Local Certificates
screen to generate certification requests and import the EMG's CA-signed
certificates (
• Use the
Trusted CA
screen to save the certificates of trusted CAs to the EMG (
21.2 What You Need to Know
The following terms and concepts may help as you read through this chapter.
Certification Authority
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. The certification authority uses its private key to sign certificates. Anyone can then use the
certification authority's public key to verify the certificates. You can use the EMG to generate
certification requests that contain identifying information and public keys and then send the
certification requests to a certification authority.
21.3 The Local Certificates Screen
Click
Security >
Certificates
to open the
Local Certificates
screen. This is the EMG’s summary list of
certificates and certification requests.
