Ca certificates

For secure connections using SSL, signed documents, and so forth, certificates are necessary. These certificates are signed by a certification authority. Usually this authority is commercial so that the certificates are trusted by the browser. When you use self-created certificates (for test purposes), you have to attach your own CA certificates to the certificate you want to use.

Configuration

The following information must be entered for the definition of a CA certificate:

Name

The name used to reference the certificate information. This name can only contain lower case letters, numbers, a dot, and underscore.

Description

A user-friendly description (optional).

Internal

The internally used CA certificate (with fixed name ca) cannot be edited using this screen and has this flag set to read-only.

CA Certificate

This field is used to upload a certificate file in PEM format. It will be automatically emptied after saving, and the content will be stored in the file system. When a new instance is created, a certificate must be uploaded. When updating an existing instance of this class, it is not necessary to upload the certificate.

Distinguished Name

This field displays the distinguished name of the subject of the uploaded certificate. This information is stored in the database as read-only.

Issuer Distinguished Name

This field displays the distinguished name of the issuer of the uploaded certificate. This information is stored in the database as read-only.

Valid from

This field displays the date and time when the uploaded certificate starts to be valid. This information is stored in the database as read-only.

Valid until

This field displays the date and time when the uploaded certificate ceases to be valid. This information is stored in the database as read-only.