Administrator Guide

Simplied Certicate Enrollment Protocol
Simplied Certicate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) was used in a closed network where all end-points are trusted. The goal of SCEP is to
support the secure issuance of certicates to network devices in a scalable manner. Within an enterprise domain, it enables network
devices that do not run with domain credentials to enroll for certicates from a Certication Authority (CA).
At the end of the transactions that are dened in this protocol, the network device has a private key and associated certicate that is
issued by a CA. Applications on the device may use the key and its associated certicate to interact with other entities on the network. The
most common usage of this certicate on a network device is to authenticate the device in an IPSec session.
ThinOS is treated as a network device. The functionality of ThinOS SCEP includes manual certicate request, automatic certicate request,
and automatic renewal of certicate.
Requesting certicate manually
To request the certicate manually, do the following:
1 Go to System Tools > Certicates > Request Certicate.
The Request Certicate dialog box is displayed.
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