Organizational CA Self-Signed Certificate Property Page

The signature for a self-signed public key certificate is different than the signature on the Organizational CA's other public key certificate. This is because of a different issuer name in the certificate.

The self-signed public key certificate is generated when the Organizational CA is created.

Subject Name
This field displays the fully typed name of the subject within the CA's self-signed certificate.

Issuer Name
This field displays the fully typed name of the issuer of the self-signed certificate.

Effective Date
This field displays the time and date when the CA's self-signed certificate becomes valid. The date is displayed in a locale-specific format. The time is displayed in a 24-hour clock format.

Expiration Date
This field displays the date and time when the CA's self-signed certificate becomes invalid. Like the Effective Date field, this field uses both a locale-specific date and a 24-hour clock format.

Certificate Status
This field initially displays Click Validate... as the status for each certificate. To determine the certificate's status, click Validate.

Replace
This button allows you to replace the contents of this certificate by either reading in new content from a PKCS12 (PFX) file or pasting the content into the dialog box. You might use this option if your certificate has expired.

Details
This button provides additional details about the CA's self-signed certificate, including information regarding the key usage, signature algorithm, extensions, and Novell^® security attributes.

Export
This button opens a new dialog box that allows you to export the self-signed certificate in DER or Base64 format, or the self-signed certificate, certificate chain, and private key in PKCS #12 (PFX) format.

Validate
Clicking this button starts a validation test on the certificate that checks to see if the certificate, and all certificates in its certificate chain, are valid. The validation test reports the status and a reason, if applicable. The status then appears in the Status field.

The validation test can return one of two values:

• Valid -- The certificate validation test found all certificates in the certificate chain (back to the root certificate) to be valid.
• Invalid -- The certificate validation test found one or more certificates in the certificate chain (back to the root certificate) to be invalid.

To see a list of reasons why a certificate may be invalid, click here.

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