ZyXEL Communications G-2000 Plus User Manual

ZyAIR G-2000 Plus User’s Guide

Chapter 17 Certificates

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The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 69   My Certificate Details 

Name

This field displays the identifying name of this certificate. If you want to change 

the name, type up to 31 characters to identify this certificate. You may use any 

character (not including spaces).

Property 

 

Default self-signed 

certificate which 

signs the imported 

remote host 

certificates.

Select this check box to have the ZyAIR use this certificate to sign the trusted 

remote host certificates that you import to the ZyAIR. This check box is only 

available with self-signed certificates. 
If this check box is already selected, you cannot clear it in this screen, you must 

select this check box in another self-signed certificate’s details screen. This 

automatically clears the check box in the details screen of the certificate that was 

previously set to sign the imported trusted remote host certificates.

Certificate 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 ZyAIR 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been revoked.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 Refresh 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 ZyAIR.

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 

ZyAIR uses rsa-pkcs1-sha1 (RSA public-private key encryption algorithm and 

the SHA1 hash algorithm). Some certification authorities may use ras-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 ZyAIR uses RSA encryption) and the length of the key 

set in bits (1024 bits for example).