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Adding a DigiCert certificate authority

This topic steps you through adding a DigiCert certificate authority (CA). But before you begin, review the following requirements:

  • Make sure you have a billing setup with DigiCert for pre-purchasing certificate units or for post-use billing; TLS Protect Cloud doesn't support purchasing individual certificates with a credit card for each transaction.
  • Have your DigiCert authentication credentials on hand.
  • Make sure that you have the Manager role or higher in DigiCert CertCentral.

Do you want to issue DV certificates?

DV (Domain Validated) certificates are a type of TLS/SSL certificate that verifies ownership or control of the domain through a validation process called Domain Control Validation (DCV).

The DigiCert connector for TLS Protect Cloud is designed to only support OV and EV certificate products.

The ACME protocol was designed to handle the unique steps of the DCV process, so the supported option in TLS Protect Cloud for requesting DV certificates is the ACME CA Connector, which has the ability to automate the DCV process.

Learn more about DigiCert's ACME interface for getting GeoTrust DV certificates on DigiCert's documentation site.

To add a DigiCert certificate authority

  1. Sign in to Venafi Control Plane.
  2. Click Integrations > Certificate Authorities.
  3. Click New > DigiCert.
  4. Enter a Name that this CA should be called in TLS Protect Cloud.
  5. Copy and paste your API Key from DigiCert CertCentral.
  6. Click Validate.
  7. Click Add Account.

What's Next

This CA is now ready to be added to one or more certificate issuing templates. To do this, select this CA when creating certificate issuing templates.