Help for Add Public Certificate


Description of the information displayed

The Add Public Certificate Request page lets you add a publicly-signed certificate (received from a Certificate Authority) to the SSL database. To add the new certificate, paste the certificate information into the Paste Signed Certificate Below field and select Submit.

This function assumes the received certificate is encrypted and encoded in base64 format. This common format is used by Certificate Authorities (CAs) to send newly created certificates to their customers. The SSL database must contain a CA certificate (sometimes referred to as a root certificate or root key) from the CA before the certificate can be added (so that the received certificate can be decrypted when it is added to the database).

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.


Description of the buttons and actions available

submit Click this button to add the publicly-signed certificate into the SSL database.
reset Click this button to clear all input fields on the page.
cancel Click this button to cancel adding a publicly-signed certificate and return to the Edit SSL Database page.