Generate your own signing certificate

If the services on your network require more than a few self-signed certificates, it may be worth the additional effort to create an S/MIME signing certificate for your own internal Certification Authority (CA). Using certificates signed by your own CA allows the various services using the certificates to easily trust other services using certificates issued from the same CA.

1. Navigate to System > Encryption and click Certificate Store.
2. In the Task panel, click Generate certificate/key.
3. In the Generate New Certificate or Key dialog, select Certificate Authority from the Type list.

4. Follow the instructions on screen and make the other selections that you need.

   What do I need to know?

   • Type only ASCII printable characters in the text boxes.
   • Mouse over the pink Required text boxes to display tooltips for those fields.
5. Click Generate.

6. Apply the configuration.

   Your signing certificate appears in the Certificate Authorities certificate store. You can now go on to generate and self-sign private S/MIME keys.

See also...

• Manage signing certificates
• Generate an S/MIME or PGP private key

• Apply the new configuration