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¶
- Sign in to Venafi Control Plane.
- Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
- 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¶
- Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
- In the toolbar, click Add.
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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.
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When you're done, click Add.
You'll see your new CA certificate in inventory and can download it.
Download a Trusted CA certificate¶
- Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
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In the left navigation pane, click the certificate you want to download.
Note
You can only download one certificate at a time.
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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.
- Click Inventory > Trusted CA Certificates.
- 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.
- In the toolbar, click Delete.