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How Digital Certificates Work with Your Security System

CA Tape Encryption works with your security system to access digital certificates, as outlined in the following list:

• CA ACF2, CA Top Secret, and IBM Security Server RACF generate digital certificates.
• All of the information found in a digital certificate is stored in the security product's database, including information about the certificate owner and their public keys.
• The digital certificate information can be retrieved by authorized users and applications.
• Digital certificates can be exported in X.509 format, to be shared publicly, containing only the public portion of the public key or private key pair.
• CA Tape Encryption interfaces with the security product and dynamically retrieves the certificate when it is needed for encryption or decryption.