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OrBIT User Guide

signingKeyType

In this section:
Information type

Certificates

Syntax
"signingKeyType": "{asymmetricPrivate|selfSigned}"
Parameters

asymmetricPrivate

Signs the device certificate with the asymmetric private key of an intermediate certificate authority used in an OEM-specific Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate chain. Can only be used with the eSecIP Professional and eSecIP Standard editions.

selfSigned

Signs the device certificate with the certificate’s own private key that the Security Appliance generated when creating the certificate. This does not provide full security and is discouraged.

For use with

The product configuration file for all eSecIP editions.

Description

Use this field to define the type of key to sign the device certificate with.

This field is mandatory in a certificates configuration object.

Example
"signingKeyType": "asymmetricPrivate"