About Managing Certificates for Oracle Wallets

All certificates are signed data structures that bind a network identity with a corresponding public key.

Table 6-6 describes the two types of certificates distinguished in this chapter.

Table 6-6 Types of Certificates

Certificate Type	Examples
User certificates	Certificates issued to servers or users to prove an end entity's identity in a public key/private key exchange
Trusted certificates	Certificates representing entities whom you trust, such as certificate authorities who sign the user certificates they issue

Note:

Before you can install a user certificate, ensure that the wallet contains the trusted certificate representing the certificate authority who issued that user certificate. However, whenever you create a new wallet, several publicly trusted certificates are automatically installed, since they are so widely used. If the necessary certificate authority is not represented, then you must install its certificate first.

Also, you can import using the PKCS#7 certificate chain format, which gives you the user certificate and the CA certificate at the same time.