Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 817

Certificate Manager agent A user who belongs to a group authorized to manage agent
services for a Certificate Manager. These services include the ability to access and modify
(approve and reject) certificate requests and issue certificates.
certificate profile A set of configuration settings that defines a certain type of
enrollment. The certificate profile feature replaces the policy functionality by allowing you
to set up policies for a particular type of enrollment along with an authentication method in
a certificate profile.
Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) Format used for messages related to
life-cycle management of X.509 certificates. This format is a subset of CMMF. See also
Certificate Management Message Formats (CMMF). For detailed information, see
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certificate revocation list (CRL) As defined by the X.509 standard, a list of revoked
certificates by serial number, generated and signed by a certificate authority (CA).
chain of trust See certificate chain.
chained CA See linked CA.
cipher See cryptographic algorithm.
client authentication The process of identifying a client to a server, for example, with a
name and password or with a certificate and some digitally signed data. See
certificate-based authentication, password-based authentication, server authentication.
client SSL certificate A certificate used to identify a client to a server using the SSL
protocol. See Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
CMC See Certificate Management Messages over Cryptographic Message Syntax
(CMC).
CMC Enrollment Features that allow you to send either signed enrollment or signed
revocation requests to a Certificate Manager using an agents signing certificate. These
requests are then automatically processed by the Certificate Manager.
CMMF See Certificate Management Message Formats (CMMF).
CS See Red Hat Certificate System (CS), Cryptographic Message Syntax (CS).
CS instance An instance of a CS subsystem, comprising both code and data and treated
as a discrete entity.
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