What's In This Guide - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.1 - COMMAND-LINE Manual

What's in This Guide

• Understand the concepts of intranet, extranet, and the Internet security and the
role of digital certificates in a secure enterprise. These include the following
topics:
If you are new to these concepts, we recommend that you read the
security-related appendixes of the accompanying manual, Managing Servers
with Netscape Console.
What's in This Guide
This guide contains the following topics:
Chapter 1 "Command-Line
Tools"
Chapter 2 "CMS Upgrade
Utility"
Chapter 3 "Password Cache
Utility"
Chapter 4 "AuditVerify"
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SSL cipher suites
The purpose of and major steps in the SSL handshake
Encryption and decryption
Public keys, private keys, and symmetric keys
Significance of key lengths
Digital signatures
Digital certificates, including various types of digital certificates
The role of digital certificates in a public-key infrastructure (PKI)
Certificate hierarchies
Provides an overview of the command-line tools
provided with Certificate Management System,
including the ones that are not covered in this
documentation.
Describes how to use the utility to upgrade from
a previous release of Certificate Management
System.
Describes how to use the tool for managing the
single sign-on password cache.
Describes how to use the tool used to verify
signed audit logs.