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Obtaining a Public Key Certificate

After the public key is generated, the router must obtain a public key certificate from a CA, a process called certificate enrollment. The procedure to obtain public keys depends on whether the offline or online digital certificate process is being used.

The standards supported for certificate enrollment are PKCS #10 certificate requests, PKCS #7 responses, and X.509v3 certificates. For manual enrollment, certificates are encoded in base64 (MIME) so that the files are easily transferred through cut-and-paste operations and e-mail.

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