In the ThinPrint Hub’s web console under the menu item Certificates, you will find the following options:
- Certificates: Upload, unlock, remove certificates, etc.
- Transport Layer Security (TLS): assign specific purposes for certificates
Certificates
This menu is used for loading certificates from a workstation or a server onto the ThinPrint Hub or Personal Printing Release Station (the following screenshots). If a password has a key, then it is protected with a password; this must be entered while uploading.
| Menu | Function |
| Upload certificate | • select the certificate to be uploaded • file type .pfx, .p12 or .cer |
| Unlock certificate→ Unlock | • enter password • click Unlock to confirm |
| Unlock certificate→ Remove | • cancel uploading the certificate |
| In use | • certificate is in use • see below Transport Layer Security (TLS) |
| • remove the certificate • click Save to confirm |
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| Save | saves the entries |
| Cancel | cancels the operation |
Note! A reboot is required after loading the certificates onto the ThinPrint Hub. For your certificates to function error-free, also check the System Time.
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
This menu is used to assign specific purposes (Illus. below) for certificates that have been loaded, as described above.
| Menu | Function |
| Web server certificate | • Certificate for access to the web console, to avoid certificate errors in the browser (optional); this can be purchased from a trusted root certification authority or can be generated from a certificate server of your own (in the second case, the computer where the browser is running must have a certificate installed on it, with which the web server certificate can be checked, e.g. its root certificate). • certificate name must match ThinPrint Hub’s hostname, FQDN or IPv4 address • Afterwards, perform a system reboot. |
| Certificate for printing | • a certificate that the ThinPrint Client sends to the ThinPrint Engine with encrypted printing; it must be appropriate for server authentication and must contain a key • certificate name is arbitrary • Afterwards, perform a system reboot. |
| Save | saves the selection |
| Cancel | cancels the operation |
For information about the server-side configuration of the encryption of print jobs to be sent with ThinPrint, see: ThinPrint Engine on Print Servers ‒ Encryption of Print Data