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Employing Certificate Signing Request (CSR) files for cryptographic operations

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You would like to perform various cryptographic operations on the WebSphere DataPower appliance, including message encryption/decryption/, message signing and SSL communications. You need a cryptographic private key/public key pair that has been signed and issued by a well-known external Certificate Authority (CA) such as VeriSign, Thwarte, Entrust, etc. You have created a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) on your external appliance to order a cert from an external Certificate Authority (CA). This created a private key file "name-privkey.pem" and a pub cert file "name-sscert.pem" in "cert:" folder. You received the cert file (.cer) file from the external CA. How do you use this cert file from the external CA with the DataPower appliance?

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