The public-private key pairs used in public key cryptography play an important role in the use of digital certificates. The procedure for signing a certificate by a certificate authority (CA) and then verifying the signature, by the recipient, works as described in the topics in this chapter. The topics in this chapter also describe how to use self-signed certificates either automatically generated by the system or ones that you manually create.
For information about which devices support the features documented in this chapter, see the JUNOS Software Feature Support Reference for SRX Series and J Series Devices.
This chapter includes the following topics:
