Chapter 4 Certificate Extension Plug-In Modules - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5 - PLUG-IN Manual

Certificate Extension Plug-in Modules
Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) comes with a set of policy plug-in
modules that enable you to add X.509 certificate extensions to certificates the server
issues. This chapter explains those modules—it lists and briefly describes the
modules that are installed with a Certificate Manager and Registration Manager,
and then explains each one in detail.
The chapter has the following sections:
• Overview of Extension-Specific Policy Modules (page 130)
• AuthInfoAccessExt Plug-in Module (page 134)
• AuthorityKeyIdentifierExt Plug-in Module (page 142)
• BasicConstraintsExt Plug-in Module (page 145)
• CertificatePoliciesExt Plug-in Module (page 149)
• CertificateRenewalWindowExt Plug-in Module (page 154)
• CertificateScopeOfUseExt Plug-in Module (page 159)
• CRLDistributionPointsExt Plug-in Module (page 164)
• ExtendedKeyUsageExt Plug-in Module (page 169)
• GenericASN1Ext Plug-in Module (page 175)
• IssuerAltNameExt Plug-in Module (page 182)
• KeyUsageExt Plug-in Module (page 187)
• NameConstraintsExt Plug-in Module (page 200)
• NSCCommentExt Plug-in Module (page 209)
• NSCertTypeExt Plug-in Module (page 213)
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