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Personal certificate requests collection
Use this page to manage personal certificate requests. Personal certificate requests are temporary place holders for certificates that will be signed by a certificate authority (CA). From the admin console...
Security | SSL certificates and key management
Under Configuration settings, click Manage endpoint security configurations > {Inbound | Outbound} > ssl_configuration. Under Related items, click Key stores and certificates > key store . Under Additional Properties, click Personal certificate requests.
A private key is generated during the certificate request generation, but only the certificate is sent to the CA. The CA generates a new certificate, signed by the CA. This can be added in the Personal Certificates panel.
Personal certificate requests buttons. This table lists the personal certificate requests buttons.
Button Resulting action New Creates a personal certificate request that can be given to a certificate authority to complete. Delete Delete a personal certificate request. Extract Extracts a personal certificate request. Only one certificate request can be selected at a time. Query Queries a personal certificate request. Only one certificate request can be selected at a time.
- Any changes made to this panel are permanent.
- A Personal certificate request places a valid self-signed certificate in the keystore. This placeholder certificate is later replaced with the certificate that the Certificate Authority signs and returns. We must have a default certificate assigned on the SSL configuration. If a default certificate is not assign, when multiple personal certificates exist in a keystore and no default certificate is selected, the selection of a certificate within the SSL configuration keystore is random, which might cause SSL handshake errors.
Key label
Alias that represents the personal certificate request in the key store.
Requested by
Specifies the Subject distinguished name (DN) that represents the identity of the certificate request.
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