Nokia 7710 - Authenticating to VPN gateways

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Authenticating to VPN gateways

You need to prove your identity when you log on to the
enterprise VPN. The VPN policy determines the
authentication method that you use:

• Certificate-based authentication — you must have a

certificate that a trusted certification authority signs.
You use online certificate enrollment to obtain the
certificate or you install certificates when you install
the VPN policy from a SIS file.

• Legacy authentication — you use user names and

passwords or passcodes to authenticate.
Administrators create the user names and passwords
or give you SecurID tokens to generate the passcodes.

If you use certificates for authentication, enter the

key store password.

If you use legacy authentication, enter VPN

authentication information when you use applications to

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connect to VPN access points and the smartphone
negotiates encrypted connections with the VPN gateway.

To use usernames and passwords to authenticate to

a VPN gateway, enter your VPN user name in

VPN user

name:

and VPN password in

VPN password:

. Tap

OK

To use usernames and passcodes to authenticate to

a VPN gateway, enter your VPN user name in

VPN user

name:

. Generate a SecurID passcode and enter it in

VPN

passcode:

. Tap

OK

If the SecurID token has become out of synchronisation
with the time clock of the ACE/Server, you are prompted
for the next passcode that the ACE/Server uses as a new
reference for the time base of the token. Enter your VPN
user name in

VPN user name:

. Generate and enter a new

passcode in

Next passcode:

and tap

OK

. If this fails, contact

administrators.