Enrollment request fields – Cisco VPN 3002 User Manual

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Chapter 12 Administration

Administration | Certificate Management | View Enrollment Request

Enrollment Request Fields

An enrollment request contains some or all of the following fields:

Field

Content

Subject

The person or system that uses the certificate.

Issuer

The CA or other entity (jurisdiction) from whom the certificate is being
requested.

Subject and Issuer consist of a specific-to-general identification hierarchy: CN,
OU, O, L, SP, and C. These labels and acronyms conform to X.520
terminology, and they echo the fields on the Administration | Certificate
Management | Enrollment screen.

CN

Common Name: the name of a person, system, or other entity. This is the
lowest (most specific) level in the identification hierarchy.

For the VPN 3002 self-signed SSL certificate, the CN is the IP address on the
Ethernet 1 (Private) interface at the time the certificate is generated. SSL
compares this CN with the address you use to connect to the VPN 3002 via
HTTPS, as part of its validation.

OU

Organizational Unit: the subgroup within the organization (O).

O

Organization: the name of the company, institution, agency, association, or
other entity.

L

Locality: the city or town where the organization is located.

SP

State/Province: the state or province where the organization is located.

C

Country: the two-letter country abbreviation. These codes conform to ISO
3166 country abbreviations.

Public Key Type

The algorithm and size of the public key that the CA or other issuer used in
generating this certificate.

Request Usage

The type of certificate: Identity or SSL.

MD5 Thumbprint

A 128-bit MD5 hash of the complete certificate contents, shown as a 16-byte
string. This value is unique for every certificate, and it positively identifies the
certificate. If you question a certificate’s authenticity, you can check this value
with the issuer.

SHA1 Thumbprint

A 160-bit SHA-1 hash of the complete certificate contents, shown as a 20-byte
string. This value is unique for every certificate, and it positively identifies the
certificate. If you question a certificate’s authenticity, you can check this value
with the issuer.

Generated

The date the request was initiated.

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