What's In This Guide - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

What's in This Guide

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• You are familiar with LDAP, Red Hat Directory Server, and working with Red Hat
Console.
• You are familiar with the basic concepts of public-key cryptography and the Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol including the following:
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What's in This Guide
This guide contains the following elements:
Chapter 1, "Overview"
Chapter 2, "Installation"
Chapter 3, "Certificate
Manager"
Chapter 4, "Registration
Manager"
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Public keys, private keys, and symmetric keys
Significance of key lengths
Digital signatures
Digital certificates, including various types of digital certificates
The role of digital certificates in a public-key infrastructure (PKI)
Certificate hierarchies
SSL cipher suites
The purpose of and major steps in the SSL handshake
Provides a listing of the features of CS, an overview of how
CS works, an architectural overview of CS, and lists the
standards used in the product.
Provides step-by-step installation instructions.
Provides information about installing a Certificate Manager,
step-by-step instructions for installing a Certificate Manager,
an overview of the configuration options for a Certificate
Manager, information about Federal Bridge CA, and
information on setting up a cloned CA.
Provides information about installing a Registration
Manager, step-by-step instructions for installing a
Registration Manager, and an overview of the configuration
options for a Registration Manager.