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Understanding Automatically Generated Self-Signed Certificates

An automatically generated self-signed certificate allows for use of SSL-based (Secure Sockets Layer) services without requiring that the administrator obtain an identity certificate signed by a CA.

A self-signed certificate that is automatically generated by the device is similar to an SSH (Secure Shell) host key. It is stored in the file system, not as part of the configuration. It persists when the device is rebooted, and it is preserved when a request system snapshot command is issued

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