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Reference Manual for the NETGEAR ProSafe VPN Client

6-30 Using the Certificate Manager

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You can, however, change the trust policy on the Root CA Certificates tab, and view a real-time

list of the trusted root CA certificates. When you change the trust policy on this tab, the client

dynamically updates the trust policy selected on the Trust Policy tab.

1. In the Certificate Manager, click the Root CA Certificates tab.

2. Select the Show only trusted roots check box. Based on the trust policy specified in the Trust

policy--trust these roots for IPSec group, all the trusted root CA certificates display in the

list.

The Trust policy--trust these roots for IPSec options match those on the Trust Policy tab,

with different labels:

Table 6-3:

Caution: Depending on the operating system and Internet Explorer version installed on your

computer, there may be at least 100 root CA certificates on your computer. Before clicking All

roots, carefully consider the security ramifications.

3. In the Trust policy--trust these roots for IPSec group, click the trust policy option to apply;

this takes effect immediately. The list of trusted root CAs is updated to reflect the change.

Trust policy options:

Root CA Certificates tab Trust Policy tab

Configured roots (default) Trust specific root CAs (default)

Issuers of my certs Trust CAs that have issued a local

personal certificate

All roots Trust all root CAs installed on this

computer