Help for Add Certificate Authority
The Add Certificate Authority page lets you add a Certificate Authority certificate (received from a Certificate Authority) to the SSL database.
A Certificate Authority (CA) certificate (sometimes referred to as a root certificate or root key) allows you to receive and add any publicly-signed certificates from the CA. The SSL database was initialized with the default set of Certificate Authority (CA) certificates when the database was created.
To add the new certificate, fill in the Label field, paste the certificate information into the Paste Signed Certificate Below field, and select Submit. The Label is the name used to identify the certificate in the database (for example, 'A New Certificate Authority'). This value can be any text string up to 64 characters.
This function assumes the received certificate is encoded in base64 format. This common format is used by Certificate Authorities (CAs) to send newly created certificates to their customers.
You must paste the exact contents of the received encoded certificate information into the Paste Signed Certificate Below field. The recommended method is to use cut-and-paste to copy the received information (for example, from an e-mail) into the field.
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Click this button to add the CA certificate into the SSL database. |
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Click this button to clear all input fields on the page. |
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Click this button to cancel adding a CA certificate and return to the Edit SSL Database page. |