Using certificates for SSL/TLS communication

Network services in WinGate use network connections on the WinGate server to listen for, and respond to client requests. Configuring a WinGate network service to use a particular network connection, is known as binding the network interface to the service. As such, each network service has a Bindings configuration where you can set which network connections the service will use. Within this configuration you can specify if the network connection should use SSL for communication to the service using a particular certificate.

Note

To have a network service use a certificate for SSL:

(The following instructions for using WinGate certificates are based on the certificate being previously created).

Read more about creating certificates

1. Open the WinGate Management console.
2. Navigate to Control Panel > Services and open the properties for the selected service that will use SSL or TLS in its communications.
3. On the network service properties, select the Bindings tab.

   

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4. Select Add to add a new dynamic binding policy, or select an existing entry from the Binding Policy pane and click Edit. This will open the Dynamic Binding Policy dialog.

   

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5. Select the network interface the binding policy will apply to. In this example it is the Local Area Connection with the IP address of 192.168.0.21.
6. In the Options section, check the Use SSL checkbox, and from the drop down menu select the appropriate certificate that will be used for this service. In this example it was a certificate called SMTP SSL.
7. Click OK to return to the Bindings tab of the network service properties.

   

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   SSL will now be listed in the Options field of the binding policy you have just created in the Binding Policy pane, indicating that the service will accept SSL connections on that network interface.