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What's in This Guide
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Digital signatures
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The role of digital certificates in a public-key infrastructure (PKI)
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Certificate hierarchies
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SSL cipher suites
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The purpose of and major steps in the SSL handshake
For overviews of these topics, see the security-related appendixes of Managing
Servers with Netscape Console; see "Where to Go for Related Information," on page 8.
What's in This Guide
This guide describes the duties of the agents for the various CMS subsystems and
explains how to accomplish each task.
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Chapter 1, "Agent Services" provides an overview of the product and
identifies the different kinds of users, including agents. The chapter also
summarizes the tasks of each subsystem agent and lists the HTML forms you
use to perform agent tasks. Finally, the chapter explains how to access the
Agent Services pages and forms.
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As a Certificate Manager or Registration Manager agent, you are responsible
for handling requests for certificates that are made by end entities (end users,
server administrators, or other CMS subsystems) using manual enrollment.
Chapter 2, "Handling Certificate Requests" describes the general procedure for
handling requests and explains how to handle different aspects of certificate
request management.
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Chapter 3, "Finding and Revoking Certificates" explains how, as a Certificate
Manager agent, you can use the Agent Services page to find and examine a
specific certificate issued by Certificate Management System, or retrieve a list
of certificates that match specified criteria. This chapter also explains how to
revoke certificates, and manage the certificate revocation list.
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Chapter 4, "Publishing to a Directory" describes how a Certificate Manager
agent can update the LDAP directory with the current status of certificates.
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Chapter 5, "Recovering Encrypted Data" describes how to process key
recovery requests, and how to recover stored encrypted data when the
encryption key has been lost. This service is only available when the Data
Recovery Manager is installed.
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Netscape Certificate Management System Agent's Guide • March 2002
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