Certificates

A digital certificate is an electronic means to verify identity by using a trusted third-party known as a Certificate Authority (CA). SonicWall supports third-party certificates in addition to the existing Authentication Service.

SonicWall security appliances inter-operate with any X.509v3-compliant provider of Certificates. However, SonicWall security appliances have been tested with these vendors of Certificate Authority Certificates:

• Entrust
• Microsoft
• OpenCA
• OpenSSL and TLS
• VeriSign

The Manager View | Home > Global Objects > Certificates page displays the details for Certificate Authority (CA) Certificates and local certificates that you have imported or configured in NSM which can be deployed into Firewalls. It also provides all the settings for managing CA and Local Certificates.

Expand each Certificate using the arrow to view additional information like Certificate Issuer, Subject Distinguished Name, Public Key Algorithm, Certificate Serial Number, Valid From, Expires On, and Status.

You can also search for a specific certificate using the Search box or choose from the drop down list and select the desired option.

• All Certificates - Displays all certificates and certificate requests.
• Imported certificates - Displays all imported certificates.
• Certificate signing Request - Displays the pending requests.
• Expired certificates - Displays all expired certificates.

• New Signing Request

• Configuring SCEP

• Importing Certificates

• Deleting Certificates