Research on Issuing a certificate and Generating a private key of a Home-gateway

摘要

In this paper, we proposed certificate issuing and management methods for a home-gateway's public key certificate, and specified generating and storing location of a private key for a home-gateway. Home gateway's certificates are issued online or offline with an aid of the PKI entities by human user's involvement. Home-gateway without full equipment of certificate issuing and management can be assisted by home gateway administrative server. As for the generating location of a private key, a home-gateway, an administrative server, and a smart card are the choices for generating a private key as well as storing and operating the private key for authentication service of HG.