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The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) provides a common set of infrastructure features supporting public key and certificate-based authentication based on the RSA public/private key pairs and X.509 digital certificates.

Certificate Types

Local-Internal Certificates

In previous 

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versions, the RSA key pairs and Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for
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platforms were generated on an external workstation. The CSR was then submitted to a Certificate Authority, and the resulting certificate was received back from the CA, copied onto the workstation, and combined with the private key in a PKCS#12 file which was used to install the key pair and certificate onto the
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.

The 

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application can now generate and install RSA key pairs and generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) on the 
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system itself. The certificate request is sent to a CA, and the issued certificate is then installed on the
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. The local-internal certificate option simplifies the certificates and keys managing process and also provides more security since the private key never leaves the
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. For steps to configure local-internal certificates, see Generating PKI Certificates.

Local Certificates

Local certificates are credentials belonging to the local system itself, which it presents to peers in order to prove its identity. You have to download local certificate files to the system before installing the certificates.

Remote Certificates

Remote certificates are credentials belonging to Certificate Authorities (CA). The copies of these certificates are installed in the 

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because they are part of a chain of certificates the local system will present to peers, or because the corresponding CAs are trust anchors for the local system. Certificates belonging to non-CA remote systems should also be installed as trust anchors in this manner.

The Certificate Authority (CA) certificates and trusted remote certificates contain public key certificates; they do not contain the private keys. The CA certificates and remote certificates are Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) format files; a method for encoding a data object (such as an X.509 certificate) which uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity.

The 

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imports these certificates from Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) formatted files. 

Command Syntax

Set Command Syntax

% set system security pki certificate <certificate name>
	fileName <1-255 characters>
	passPhrase <pass phrase>
	state <disabled | enabled>
	type <local | local-internal | remote>


% show system security pki
 
% delete system security pki

Request Command Syntax

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Command Parameters

Note

The SBC supports a maximum of 4,096 TLS certificates/CAs (both local and remote).

Set Parameters

set system security Parameters

 

Parameter

Length/Range

Description

certificate

N/A

<certificate name> – The collection of certificates configured on SBC.

fileName

N/A

Certificate content filename.

passPhrase

N/A

Specifies the pass-phrase to decrypt RSA private key in PKCS12 file.

state

N/A

Administration state of this certificate. Options are:

  • disabled – Prohibits the PKI certificate from being used by the 
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     for authenticating remote peers (when this is a remote certificate) OR presenting its own identity (in case of a local or local-internal certificate).
  • enabled – Certificate can be used by 
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     for authentication purposes.

The certificate must first be installed on the 

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before enabling it.

type

N/A

Specifies the certificate type – CA (remote) certificate or local certificate. Options are:

  • local – Certificate belongs to (has as its subject) the local system itself; the key pair and CSR were generated elsewhere.
  • local-internal – Certificate belongs to (has as its subject) the local system itself; the key pair and CSR were generated on this machine.
  • remote – Certificate belongs to (has as its subject) a remote entity such as a  CA or peer device.

Request Parameters

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Command Example

To display security management configuration:

% show system security pki certificate
certificate testSBCCert {
    state 		enabled;
	fileName	sonuscert.pem
    type  local-internal;
}
certificate defaultSBCCert {
    state      enabled;
    fileName   sonuscert.p12;
    passPhrase $3$KFfiuJ0Lifk=;
    type       local;
}
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