Chapter 20 Publishing Certificates And Crls To A File; Configuring Certificate Manager To Publish To Files - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.01 Installation And Setup Manual

Publishing Certificates and CRLs to a
Netscape Certificate Management System (CMS) provides a customizable
publishing framework for the Certificate Manager, enabling it to publish
certificates, certificate revocation lists (CRLs), and other certificate-related objects
to any of the supported repositories—an LDAP-compliant directory, a flat file, and
an online validation authority—using the appropriate protocol. This chapter
explains how to configure the Certificate Manager to publish certificates and CRLs
to a file.
Note that configuring the Certificate Manager for publishing is optional—you can
turn this feature off without affecting any of the certificate issuance and
management operations handled by the server.
The chapter has the following sections:
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Configuring Certificate Manager to Publish to Files

• Managing Mapper and Publisher Plug-in Modules
Configuring Certificate Manager to Publish to
Files
The Certificate Manager can publish certificates and CRLs to flat files, which can
then be imported into any repository, for example, into a relational database. If you
configure the server to publish certificates and CRLs to flat files, it publishes them
to files as DER-encoded binary blobs.
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