Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks








9.4
Task
2Configuring CA Support



9.4.8
Authenticate the CA





Authenticate
the CA to verify it is legitimate by obtaining its public key and
its certificate with the ca
authenticate command in
configuration mode. After entering the command, manually
authenticate the CA's public key by contacting the CA administrator
to compare the CA certificate's fingerprint. An RA, if used (as in
the Entrust CA), acts as a proxy for a CA. The command syntax is as
follows:
ca authenticate ca_nickname [fingerprint]

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An example of authenticating a CA is
as follows:
pixfirewall(config)#ca
authenticate labca
Certificate has the following attributes:
Fingerprint: 93700c31 4853ec4a ded81400 43d3c82c