
Chapter 9 Certificates
P-660R-F1 Series User’s Guide
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Certification Path Click the Refresh button to have this read-only text box display the hierarchy
of certification authorities that validate the certificate (and the certificate
itself).
If the issuing certification authority is one that you have imported as a trusted
certification authority, it may be the only certification authority in the list
(along with the certificate itself). If the certificate is a self-signed certificate,
the certificate itself is the only one in the list. The ZyXEL Device does not trust
the certificate and displays “Not trusted” in this field if any certificate on the
path has expired or been revoked.
Refresh Click this to display the certification path.
Certificate
Information
These read-only fields display detailed information about the certificate.
Type This field displays general information about the certificate. CA-signed means
that a Certification Authority signed the certificate. Self-signed means that the
certificate’s owner signed the certificate (not a certification authority).
“X.509” means that this certificate was created and signed according to the
ITU-T X.509 recommendation that defines the formats for public-key
certificates.
Version This field displays the X.509 version number.
Serial Number This field displays the certificate’s identification number given by the
certification authority or generated by the ZyXEL Device.
Subject This field displays information that identifies the owner of the certificate, such
as Common Name (CN), Organizational Unit (OU), Organization (O) and
Country (C).
Issuer This field displays identifying information about the certificate’s issuing
certification authority, such as Common Name, Organizational Unit,
Organization and Country.
With self-signed certificates, this is the same as the Subject Name field.
Signature Algorithm This field displays the type of algorithm that was used to sign the certificate.
The ZyXEL Device uses rsa-pkcs1-sha1 (RSA public-private key encryption
algorithm and the SHA1 hash algorithm). Some certification authorities may
use rsa-pkcs1-md5 (RSA public-private key encryption algorithm and the MD5
hash algorithm).
Valid From This field displays the date that the certificate becomes applicable. The text
displays in red and includes a Not Yet Valid! message if the certificate has not
yet become applicable.
Valid To This field displays the date that the certificate expires. The text displays in red
and includes an Expiring! or Expired! message if the certificate is about to
expire or has already expired.
Key Algorithm This field displays the type of algorithm that was used to generate the
certificate’s key pair (the ZyXEL Device uses RSA encryption) and the length of
the key set in bits (1024 bits for example).
Subject Alternative
Name
This field displays the certificate owner‘s IP address (IP), domain name (DNS)
or e-mail address (EMAIL).
Key Usage This field displays for what functions the certificate’s key can be used. For
example, “DigitalSignature” means that the key can be used to sign
certificates and “KeyEncipherment” means that the key can be used to encrypt
text.
Basic Constraint This field displays general information about the certificate. For example,
Subject Type=CA means that this is a certification authority’s certificate and
“Path Length Constraint=1” means that there can only be one certification
authority in the certificate’s path.
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