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CHAPTER 11 Certificates 11.1 Overview This chapter describes how your P-792H v2 can use certificates as a means of authenticating wireless clients. It gives background information about public-key certificates and explains how to use them. A certificate contains the certificate owner's identity and public key. Certificates provide a way to exchange public keys for use in authentication. Figure 63 Certificates Example In the figure above, the P-792H v2 (Z) checks the identity of the notebook (A) using a certificate before granting it access to the network. 11.1.1 What You Need to Know About Certificates Certification Authority A Certification Authority (CA) issues certificates and guarantees the identity of each certificate owner. There are commercial certification authorities like CyberTrust or VeriSign and government certification authorities. You can use the P-792H v2 to generate certification requests that contain identifying information and public keys and then send the certification requests to a certification authority. Certificate File Formats The certification authority certificate that you want to import has to be in one of these file formats: P-792H v2 User's Guide 145