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What certificates does Secure Global Desktop support?

The Secure Global Desktop supports Base 64-encoded PEM-format X.509 server certificates for use with Secure Global Desktop security services. These have the following structure:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
certificate
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Secure Global Desktop supports X.509 certificates that have been signed with any of the following Certificate Authority (CA) certificates (root certificates):

• Baltimore CyberTrust Code Signing Root
• Baltimore CyberTrust Root
• Entrust.net CA
• Entrust.net Client CA 1
• Entrust.net Client CA 2
• Entrust.net Server CA 1
• Entrust.net Server CA 2
• Equifax Secure CA
• Equifax Secure eBusiness CA 1
• Equifax Secure eBusiness CA 2
• Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA
• GeoTrust Global CA
• The Go Daddy Group, Inc. Class 2 CA
• GTE CyberTrust Root
• GTE CyberTrust Global Root
• GTE CyberTrust Root 5
• Starfield Technologies, Inc. Class 2 CA
• Thawte Personal Basic CA
• Thawte Personal Freemail CA
• Thawte Personal Premium CA
• Thawte Premium CA
• Thawte Server CA
• http://www.valicert.com
• VeriSign Class 1 Public Primary CA - G1
• VeriSign Class 1 Public Primary CA - G2
• VeriSign Class 1 Public Primary CA - G3
• VeriSign Class 2 Public Primary CA - G1
• VeriSign Class 2 Public Primary CA - G2
• VeriSign Class 2 Public Primary CA - G3
• VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary CA - G1
• VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary CA - G2
• VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary CA - G3
• VeriSign Class 4 Public Primary CA - G2
• VeriSign Class 4 Public Primary CA - G3
• VeriSign/RSA Secure Server

You can use an X.509 certificate from any other CA. However, by default all users are prompted to accept or decline these certificates because they cannot be validated by Secure Global Desktop. With additional configuration you can add support for a new CA, so that users are not prompted and certificates are validated.

Note The CAs supported by the Java™ technology client depends on the configuration of the Java Plug-in. By default, the Plug-in is configured to use the certificates in the browser keystore. If the Plug-in is not configured to do this, you may have to import the CA certificate (root certificate) using the Java Control Panel.

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