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APPENDIX B

Importing Certificates

This appendix shows you how to import public key certificates into your web

browser.

Public key certificates are used by web browsers to ensure that a secure web site

is legitimate. When a certificate authority such as VeriSign, Comodo, or Network

Solutions, to name a few, receives a certificate request from a website operator,

they confirm that the web domain and contact information in the request match

those on public record with a domain name registrar. If they match, then the

certificate is issued to the website operator, who then places it on the site to be

issued to all visiting web browsers to let them know that the site is legitimate.

Many ZyXEL products, such as the NSA-2401, issue their own public key

certificates. These can be used by web browsers on a LAN or WAN to verify that

they are in fact connecting to the legitimate device and not one masquerading as

it. However, because the certificates were not issued by one of the several

organizations officially recognized by the most common web browsers, you will

need to import the ZyXEL-created certificate into your web browser and flag that

certificate as a trusted authority.

Note: You can see if you are browsing on a secure website if the URL in your web

browser’s address bar begins with https:// or there is a sealed padlock

icon ( ) somewhere in the main browser window (not all browsers show the

padlock in the same location.)

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