Certificates For The Secure Data Transfer; Introduction - Siemens SINAMICS S120 Function Manual

5. If the know-how protection was not activated, you can now finely adjust the configuration
6. Then activate the know-how and copy protection for the individual drives, if required.
6.28.11

Certificates for the secure data transfer

6.28.11.1

Introduction

The Secure Socket Layer protocol (SSL) enables encrypted data transfer between a client
and the SINAMICS drive. HTTPS access between the browser and the drive is based on the
Secure Socket Layer protocol.
This section informs you which steps you need to follow to enable encrypted data transfer
between a client and SINAMICS. The possibilities are as follows:
1. You have a Certification Authority (CA) in your organization and the necessary key files
2. You do not have a CA in your organization. In this case, you will need to create the key
Drive functions
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for the individual drives.
If the know-how protection was activated, you require a password for the fine adjustment
of all parameters on the individual drives that are not listed in the exception list.
Note
You can find detailed information about the following parameters in the SINAMICS
S120/150 List Manual in Section "Parameters for write protection and know-how
protection":
• Parameters that can be changed with active know-how protection,
see Section "Parameters with KHP_WRITE_NO_LOCK"
• Parameters that can only be read with active know-how protection,
see Section "Parameters with KHP_ACTIVE_READ"
are available. In this case, "Transferring key files to the SINAMICS drive (Page 404)" is
the relevant section.
files yourself. An example of how to do this is described in Section "Creating key files with
a script (Page 405)". When you have created the key files, they will need to be
transferred to SINAMICS.
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