Certificate
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You can find the Certificate Settings at **General → Certificates → Certificate**.

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A **Certificate** verifies ones digital identity in the network.

On the certificates screen you can export the certificate and its private key in X.509 PEM format.
Please be very careful with the private key. If it compromised the Certificate needs to be suspended.

The certificte name has to be a unique name, which means that it's not used by another certificte in the system.
A certificate has a **type** which is either *server* or *user*.
The type can not be changed later on and special attributes are added to the certificate depending on the **type**
that might affect its usage.

There are three different **methods** to create a certificte.

- Create Certificate
- Import Certificate
- Import P12

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Country              The country where the company is registered
State or Province    The state or province where the company is located
City                 The city where the company is located
Organization         The company name
Organizational Unit  The department of the company
Common Name          Usually the domain name, host name or URL of the company
Email Address        An email address to contact the company
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