Installing the private client certificate in your browser trust store

This procedure describes the steps to install your client certificate with its Private key in your browser’s certificate trust store. When a station a station is configured for client certificate authentication, its login references this certificate via the browser.

  • You have previously generated a client certificate and exported it with its encrypted private key.

  • If needed, you have used a third-party conversion tool to convert your private certificate *.pem file to the certificate file format required by your browser (for example, *.pfx or *.p12 /*.pkcs12).

This procedure describes installing the private certificate in the Chrome web browser certificate stores using the Certificate import tool available there. The procedure varies somewhat depending on which browser you use, but it should be similar to what is described here.

  1. In the Chrome browser’s Settings view, click on the Main Menu icon (upper left) and click Advanced > Privacy and security.
  2. On the Privacy and security view, scroll down and click Manage certificates.
  3. In the Certificates window on the Personal tab, click Import and follow the prompts in the Certificate Import Wizard to import your converted private certificate file to the browser trust store.
    Use the default file location indicated by the import tool. For example, by default the import tool in Chrome indicates the Personal trust store location.
    Your private certificate is successfully installed in your browser’s certificate trust store.

At this point, you have completed the user workflow for client certificate authentication. If the station is properly configured, you should be able to log in via browser (or Workbench) using client certificate authentication.