| Description: | The Certificate Authority (CA) is a required PKI subsystem which issues,
renews, revokes, and publishes certificates as well as compiling and
publishing Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs).
The Certificate Authority can be configured as a self-signing Certificate
Authority, where it is the root CA, or it can act as a subordinate CA,
where it obtains its own signing certificate from a public CA.
This package is one of the top-level java-based Tomcat PKI subsystems
provided by the PKI Core used by the Certificate System.
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|| ABOUT "CERTIFICATE SYSTEM" ||
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Certificate System (CS) is an enterprise software system designed
to manage enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployments.
PKI Core contains ALL top-level java-based Tomcat PKI components:
* pki-symkey
* pki-base
* pki-base-python2 (alias for pki-base)
* pki-base-python3
* pki-base-java
* pki-tools
* pki-server
* pki-ca
* pki-kra
* pki-ocsp
* pki-tks
* pki-tps
* pki-javadoc
which comprise the following corresponding PKI subsystems:
* Certificate Authority (CA)
* Key Recovery Authority (KRA)
* Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Manager
* Token Key Service (TKS)
* Token Processing Service (TPS)
Python clients need only install the pki-base package. This
package contains the python REST client packages and the client
upgrade framework.
Java clients should install the pki-base-java package. This package
contains the legacy and REST Java client packages. These clients
should also consider installing the pki-tools package, which contain
native and Java-based PKI tools and utilities.
Certificate Server instances require the fundamental classes and
modules in pki-base and pki-base-java, as well as the utilities in
pki-tools. The main server classes are in pki-server, with subsystem
specific Java classes and resources in pki-ca, pki-kra, pki-ocsp etc.
Finally, if Certificate System is being deployed as an individual or
set of standalone rather than embedded server(s)/service(s), it is
strongly recommended (though not explicitly required) to include at
least one PKI Theme package:
* dogtag-pki-theme (Dogtag Certificate System deployments)
* dogtag-pki-server-theme
* redhat-pki-server-theme (Red Hat Certificate System deployments)
* redhat-pki-server-theme
* customized pki theme (Customized Certificate System deployments)
* <customized>-pki-server-theme
NOTE: As a convenience for standalone deployments, top-level meta
packages may be provided which bind a particular theme to
these certificate server packages. |
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