Trust Center Configuration
Using the Trust Center Configuration page, you can allow an external Certificate Authority's Trust Center to automatically issue S/MIME
Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) is a specification for secure email messages that uses the X.509 format for digital certificates and uses various encryption algorithms such as 3DES. certificates. This enables Secure Email Gateway to automatically request the Trust Center to issue user certificates whenever necessary for users within designated LDAP address lists. Certificates that are generated in this way do not need to be separately created and imported, and make it easier to request multiple certificates at once.
Service provider for the Gateway 's Trust Center
SwissSign is the only supported provider.
If you are using the Gateway older than version 5.6.0
A while ago, SwissSign changed their production server from https://ra.swisssign.net/ws/cmc to https://cmc.swisssign.ch/ws/cmc. From version 5.6.0, Secure Email Gateway uses the latter server by default.
If you are using the older version of the
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Installing a newer version: the new production server will be used.
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Upgrading to a newer version: the existing production server (old server) will be changed to the new one.
To be able to use the latest production server in your
If you consider upgrading to version 5.6.0 or later, we recommend that you contact Fortra's Clearswift support first for advice.
Required information when configuring the Trust Center
Depending on the product type you have with SwissSign, such as "Mail ID Silver" and "Mail ID Gold", required information when configuring the Trust Center as well as generating a certificate A digital means of proving your identity. When you send a digitally-signed message, you are sending your certificate and public key. Certificates are issued by a certification authority and can expire or be revoked. may vary.
At this point, the following fields are only applicable for users who use the Gold certificates:
Given Name
Surname
Pseudonym
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When generating a certificate, use either Given Name and Surname or Pseudonym.
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If Pseudonym is used, the Name or Common Name field needs to start with a prefix "pseudo:". For example,
pseudo: Account Team.
Entering information in these fields are not required for the Silver certificates.
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It is strongly recommended that you consult SwissSign about these requirements. Note that these requirements are also subject to change. |