August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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Certificate Authorities and Public-Key Infrastructures
Certificate authorities are the key components in building a public-key infrastructure.
Certificate servers are often tied into a general directory service such as LDAP or some other publicly queryable system. CAs can publish certificates for everyone to access.
A certificate authority has the following functions:
Issue certificates
Renew certificates
Revoke certificates and publish a certificate revocation list
Issuing Certificates
A certificate authority is designed to take information in a certain format (such as PKCS 10) and use it to generate a certificate. Policy plays an important role in this process. Each certificate authority has the right to define its own policies to use in deciding ...