Nortel Networks 4050 Manuel D’Utilisation

602 Chapter 11 Managing certificates

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Enter the certificate information in the applicable fields.

 describes the CA Request fields.

CA Request fields

Country

http://www.iana.org

.

State/Province

The name of the state or province where the head office of 
the organization is located. Enter the full name of the state 
or province.

Locality

The name of the city where the head office of the 
organization is located. 

Organization

The registered name of the organization. The organization 
must own the domain name that appears in the common 
name of the web server. Do not abbreviate the organization 
name and do not use any of the following characters:

< > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ?

Organization Unit

The name of the department or group that uses the secure 
web server.

Common Name

The name of the web server as it appears in the URL. The 
name must be the same as the domain name of the web 
server that is requesting a certificate. If the web server 
name does not match the common name in the certificate, 
some browsers will refuse a secure connection with your 
site. Do not enter the protocol specifier (http://) or any port 
numbers or pathnames in the common name. Wildcards 
(such as * or ?) and IP address are not allowed.

E-mail Address:

The user’s e-mail address.

Alternate Name

Provide the specified information if you did not provide a 
Common Name or e-mail address. Enter a 
comma-separated list of URI:<uri>, DNS:<fqdn>, 
IP:<ip-address>, email:<email-address>).

Key Length

The length of the generated key, in bits. Available options 
are:

•

512

•

1024

•

2048

•

4096

The default value is 1024.

Password

The password to be used during manual revocation of the 
certificate.