IP Office use of certificates

Last Updated : Jul 19, 2024 |

You can configure the IP Office platform to use certificates as follows:

  • An identity certificate for each system and their local applications, including an optional separate identity certificate for management and telephony interfaces.

  • Unique identity certificate self-generated by all systems when required.

  • You can administer certificates using IP Office Manager or IP Office Web Manager, or obtain them automatically using Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) or PKCS#10 (IP Office Linux only).

  • DER and PEM for certificate file import/export, and PKCS#12 for certificate/private key pair import/export.

  • A Certificate Authority on the Primary and Application Server including Subject Alternative Name support.

  • The certificate processing can support 1024, 2048 and 4096 bit public RSA keys, and SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-224 and SHA-512 hashes.

  • A Trusted Certificate Store (TCS) of 64 entries minimum.

  • Configurable default TCS content, restored on security settings reset.

  • Individual per-service controls to enforce mutual certificate authentication where the client's certificate is requested and tested.

  • Separate management and telephony received certificate check levels that provide increasingly rigorous tests. This includes a 'high' setting that tests not only the trust chain but also the presence of the received certificate in the TCS.

  • Intermediate CA certificate support, both for the CAs and the identity certificate chain offered by IP Office and its applications.

  • Errors, alarms, and warnings to help identify certificate issues.