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Export CA Certificate from the AD Server

Once your AD server is configured to accept LDAPS connection, you need to export the CA certificate from your AD server.

The CA used to sign the LDAPS certificate is not necessary to be the one of your Certification Authority, so the safe way to locate the CA is to follow the steps below.

First, you need to find the SSL certificate of the AD server. There are 2 ways:

Once you have found the SSL certificate of the AD server, double click the certificate, go to the tab "Cetification Path"

In our example, the CA to sign the LDAPS certificate is the highlighted one "ca".

To export the CA certificate:

• • Select the CA certificate, click View Certificate.
    The Certificate dialog box appears.

• • Select the Details tab.

• • Click Copy to file.
    The Certificate Export Wizard appears.
  • Click Next.
    The Export File Format page appears.
  • Select the Base-64 encoded X.509 (CER) file format.
    The File to Export page appears.
  • To save the certificate file to the default location, in the File Name text box, type a name for the certificate. To select a different location to save the file, click Browse. Select the location and type a file name for the certificate.
  • Click Next.
    The Completing the Certificate Export Wizard page appears.
  • Review the certificate information. Click Finish.

Import CA Certificate into DualShield

Next, you need to import the CA certificate into your DualShield's keystore. DualShield's keystore is a JAVA keystore and there is a tool included in the DualShield that can be used to import certificates. Follow the steps below:

1. navigate to "tools" folder in your DualShield directory, e.g. C:\Program Files\Deepnet DualShield\tools
2. unzip "portecle.zip"
3. navigate to the Portecle folder, e.g. C:\Program Files\Deepnet DualShield\tools\portecle-1.7\portecle-1.7
4. open Windows CMD console
5. execute "portecle.jar", e.g. ..\..\..\jre\bin\java -jar portecle.jar

you should now see the Portecle's user interface:

1. Select "File | Open CA Certs Keystore"
2. Enter the default password: "changeit"
3. Select "Tools | Import Trusted Certificate" and import your CA certificate

Please note that if you can double click the file portecle.jar to run this utility, then it is very likely that you have another JRE installed on this machine that is NOT the one used in DualShield. In that case, please choose the menu "Open Keystore File..." instead, then locate the file "cacerts" under DualShield installation folder.

Alternatively, you can import a root or intermediate CA certificate to an existing Java keystore with following command

     C:\Program Files\Deepnet DualShield\jre\bin\keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias root -file yourca.crt -keystore C:\Program Files\Deepnet       DualShield\jre\lib\security\cacerts

Once you have successfully import your AD's CA certificate into your DualShield's keystore, restart the DualShield server.