This article tries to give more insight into Digital Certificates, their use, and validation.

Scope

This applies to multiple products. Digital Certificates are typically used to build up TLS tunnels in various products, FortiClientEMS, FortiAnalzyer, FortiGate, FortiNAC, FortiAuthenticator, FortiWeb, and many more.

All of them use certificates already with the web server so where the graphical user interface is available.

Additional functions like Agents or client applications may also make use of certificates.

A small and incomplete list:

• FortiClient VPN.
• FortiClient Mobility Agent.
• Fortinet FSSO Collector Agent.
• FortiNAC Persistent Agent.
• FortiGate FortiClientEMS.

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