Federation Manager Guide › Keys and Certificates for Secure Federated Communication › Import Trusted Certificates and Key/Certificate Pairs › Generate a Key/Certificate Pair

Generate a Key/Certificate Pair

If you do not have a key/certificate pair in the key database, you may generate a new key/certificate pair, by doing the following:

1. Generate a certificate request and send that request to a trusted Certificate Authority.
2. Import the signed certificate response from that authority.

These steps are described in detail in the following sections.