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Process Certificate Request Interface
Table 6-28 Parameters Accepted by the Process Certificate Request Interface (Continued)
Parameter
signatureAlgorithm
subject
templateName
toDo
validityLength
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Format and Description
MD5withRSA | SHA1withDSA | SHA1withRSA
Specifies the signing algorithm that should be used to sign a newly issued
certificate. The CA signing key must match the key type (RSA or DSA) of
the selected algorithm.
Distinguished Name (DN) string. See RFC 2253.
DN to be used for the certificate subject.
Example: CN=Alice Apple, UID=alice, OU=People, O=Example
Corporation, C=US
string
Filename relative to the template directory (web-apps/ee/ca,
web-apps/ee/ra, web-apps/agent/ca, web-apps/agent/kra, or
web-apps/agent/ra) of a file to use as the response template. This
template will be used for any response, overriding default template
settings.
accept | cancel | clone | reject
Specifies the action to take on the request.
number of seconds
The length of time, in seconds, for which the newly issued certificate will
be valid. The following list shows the approximate number of seconds in
some common time intervals:
• 1 day: 86,400
• 7 days: 604,800
• 14 days: 1,209,600
• 30 days: 2,592,000
• 180 days: 15,552,000
• 365 days: 31,536,000
• 540 days: 46,665,000
• 730 days: 63,072,000