Security

An SSL certificate digitally combines a cryptographic server public key with the server name. Only the server itself has the corresponding private key, allowing for authenticated two-way communication between a user and the server.

A certificate must be signed to be valid. If it is signed by a Certificate Authority (CA), and that CA is trusted, all certificates signed by the CA are also trusted. A self-signed certificate is one in which the owner of the certificate acts as its own CA.

An SSL certificate works only with the keys generated with its corresponding Certificate Signing Request (CSR). If SEMC is reset to the factory default settings, or another CSR is generated before the certificate that corresponds to the previous CSR is imported, the certificate does not work. In that case, a new CSR must be generated to obtain a new certificate from a CA.

The latest HPE StoreEasy management console allows you to generate CSR, import trusted SSL certificate and generate a new self-signed certificate.