Crypto ca-certificate – 3Com Wireless LAN WX1200 User Manual

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RYPTOGRAPHY

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crypto ca-certificate

Installs a certificate authority’s own PKCS #7 certificate into the WX
certificate and key storage area.

Syntax

crypto

ca-certificate {admin | eap | web}

PEM-formatted certificate

„

admin

— Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the

administrative certificate for the WX switch.

The administrative certificate authenticates the WX to 3Com wireless
switch manager (3XWM) or Web Manager.

„

eap

— Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the

Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) certificate for the WX switch.

The EAP certificate authenticates the WX to 802.1X supplicants
(clients).

„

web

— Stores the certificate authority’s certificate that signed the

WebAAA certificate for the WX switch.

The Web certificate authenticates the WX to clients who use
WebAAA.

„

PEM-formatted certificate

— ASCII text representation of the

certificate authority PKCS #7 certificate, consisting of up to
5120 characters that you have obtained from the certificate authority.

Defaults — None.

Access — Enabled.

History —Introduced in MSS Version 3.0. Webaaa option renamed to
web in MSS Version 4.1.

Usage — The Privacy-Enhanced Mail protocol (PEM) format is used for
representing a PKCS #7 certificate in ASCII text. PEM uses base64
encoding to convert the certificate to ASCII text, then puts the encoded
text between the following delimiters:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

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