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Working with Trusted CA Certificates

From the Trusted CA Certificates page in TLS Protect Cloud, you can add, download, and delete trusted certificates.

What is a CA Certificate?

A CA certificate is a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority (CA), so that SSL clients, such as web browsers, can use it to verify the SSL certificates signed by the CA.

View Trusted CA certificates

  1. Sign in to Venafi Control Plane.
  2. Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
  3. In the left navigation pane, click the certificate you want to view. The details open in the right pane.

Add a trusted CA certificate using a Base64 encoded text file

  1. Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
  2. In the toolbar, click Add.
  3. Using either the Paste Base64 encoded text or Upload files option, either paste or upload the certificates you want to add. You can upload up to 200 certificates at a time.

    Note

    The certificates must be encoded in Base64 format.

  4. When you're done, click Add.

You'll see your new CA certificate in inventory and can download it.

Download a Trusted CA certificate

  1. Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
  2. In the left navigation pane, click the certificate you want to download.

    Note

    You can only download one certificate at a time.

  3. In the toolbar, click Download.

Delete a trusted CA certificate

Warning

Keep in mind that any certificate that chains to the deleted certificate will be marked as Distrusted.

  1. Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
  2. In the left navigation, click the certificate you want to delete. If you want to delete multiple certificates, click the checkbox next to each certificate you want to delete.
  3. In the toolbar, click Delete.