Using Certificate-Based Authentication - Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

CAUTION Avoid selecting the
In order to continue using the Red Hat Console with SSL, you must select at least
one of the following ciphers:
• RC4 cipher with 40-bit encryption and MD5 message authentication.
• No encryption, only MD5 message authentication.
• DES with 56-bit encryption and SHA message authentication.
• RC4 cipher with 128-bit encryption and MD5 message authentication.
• Triple DES with 168-bit encryption and SHA message authentication.

Using Certificate-Based Authentication

Directory Server allows you to use certificate-based authentication for the
command-line tools (which are LDAP clients) and for replication communications.
Certificate-based authentication can occur between:
• An LDAP client connecting to the Directory Server.
• A Directory Server connecting to another Directory Server (replication or
chaining).
none,MD5
option if no other ciphers are available on the client. It is not secure
because encryption doesn't occur.
Using Certificate-Based Authentication
cipher because the server will use this
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