Importing Certificates

To send a certificate to the server during connection negotiation, you need to install the certificate by importing it to your Hummingbird certificate store. The certificate you import may be any of the following:

• a new or updated root certificate that is sent to you from a system administrator
• a root certificate installed with your Windows operating system, that you deleted and need to re-import
• a signed user certificate that is sent to you by your system administrator or certificate authority (CA) as a result of your submitted certificate request

To import a certificate:

1. Under Certificates, in the left pane of the console, click the certificate store into which you want to import a certificate.
2. Click the Import button.
3. In the Open dialog box, locate the certificate you want to import. You can select one of the following file filters in the Files Of Type drop-down list:
4. • Hummingbird HCS Files (*.hcs)—Lists Hummingbird certificate stores.
   • X.509 Certificate (*.cer, *.crt, *.der, *.pem)—Lists different variations of X.509 certificates.
   • PKCS#12 (*.p12, *.pfx)—Lists different variations of PKCS#12 files.
4. Click Open.

   Note:

   If the imported certificate does not appear in the list pane, right click in the pane and click Refresh in the pop-up menu.