General

Certificates are used to authenticate the communicating parties. In MX-ONE the certificate handshake procedure is carried out via TLS.

openssl is used by the key management scripts and is also used as a component doing the TLS handshake and handling the encode/decode of messages.

In SIPLP and CSTServer openssl is handled via the SIP stack, reSIProcate, for securing SIP signaling. In IPLP/TLP65 openssl is handled via the common H323 stack. These programs are in this document called “TLS supporting programs”.

For more information, see http://www.openssl.org/.