A DIGITAL CERTIFICATE AND ITS PRIVATE KEY ACQUISITION AND DISTRIBUTION METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM

摘要

The invention relates to identification technology in communication network, specially, relates to technology of digital certificate and its private key distribution for identification. A digital certificate private key acquisition method includes the steps of that: receiving downloading information which is sent by a network management server through an order channel, and the downloading information includes: a digital certificate private key filename and a digital certificate private key downloading route; establishing anonymous security socket layer connection on a file transmission channel with the network management server; downloading the digital certificate key via the anonymous security socket layer connection according to the digital certificate private key filename and the digital certificate private key downloading route in the downloading information. A digital certificate private key distribution method and a network device and a network management server are provided by the invention. Because the network management server sends the downloading instruction through the order channel, the network device downloads the digital certificate and its private key by means of anonymous security socket layer encrypted connection, which is more efficient than a manual distribution method, and ensures the security of the distribution process.