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What's in This Guide
• Chapter 2, "Job Plug-in Modules" Describes the plug-in modules that enable
you to automate certain certificate-related tasks—such as notifying agents
when a request gets queued, notifying users before their certificates expire, and
removing expired certificates from the directrory—to ease administration
overheads.
• Chapter 3, "Constraints Policy Plug-in Modules" Describes the plug-in
modules that you can use to govern the formulation of certificate content, such
as key size, signing algorithm, validity period, and so on, and issuance of
certificates.
• Chapter 4, "Certificate Extension Plug-in Modules" Describes the plug-in
modules that enable you to add standard (X.509) and proprietary certificate
extensions to certificate requests.
• Chapter 5, "Mapper Plug-in Modules" Describes the plug-in modules that
enable you to configure a Certificate Manager to locate directory entries for
publishing certificates and CRLs to the directory.
• Chapter 6, "Publisher Plug-in Modules" Describes the plug-in modules that
enable you to configure a Certificate Manager to publish certificates to the
correct attribute of the located directory entries.
• Chapter 7, "CRL Extension Plug-in Modules" Describes the plug-in modules
that enable you to configure a Certificate Manager to set CRL extensions in
CRLs before generating them and publishing them to a directory.
• Chapter 8, "Log Plug-in Modules" Describes the plug-in modules that enable
you to configure CMS logs.
Appendixes
• Appendix A, "Distinguished Names" Briefly explains what are distinguished
names (DNs) and describes how DNs are used in Certificate Management
System.
• Appendix B, "Object Identifiers" Briefly explains what are object identifiers
(OIDs) and describes significance of registering OIDs.
• Appendix C, "Certificate and CRL Extensions" Summarizes the standard
certificate and CRL extensions defined by X.509 version 3 and the extensions
defined by Netscape before this version was finalized. Recommends
extensions to use with specific kinds of certificates, including both PKIX Part 1
recommendations and Netscape extensions that must be supported to
maintain compatibility with early versions of Netscape products.
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