Importing Certificates Into Netscape Servers; Object Identifiers - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.01 Installation And Setup Manual

Importing Certificates into Netscape Servers

If a certificate chain is being imported, the first certificate in the chain must be
the CA certificate, and Communicator adds any subsequent certificates in the
chain to the local database as untrusted CA certificates.
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application/x-x509-email-cert
The certificate being downloaded is a user certificate belonging to another user
for use with S/MIME. If a certificate chain is being imported, the first
certificate in the chain must be the user certificate, and Communicator adds
any subsequent certificates to the local database as untrusted CA certificates.
This process allows people or CAs to post their email certificates on web pages
for download by other users who want to send them encrypted mail.
NOTE
Importing Certificates into Netscape Servers
Server certificates are imported via the server administration interface. Certificates
are pasted into a text input field in an HTML form, and then the form is submitted
to the administration server. Since the certificates are pasted into text fields, only
the text formats described above are supported for servers.
The type of certificate being imported is specified by the server administrator by
selections made on the administration pages. If a certificate chain is being
imported, then the first certificate in the chain must be the server or CA certificate,
and the server adds any subsequent certificates to the local database as untrusted
CA certificates.

Object Identifiers

The base of all Netscape object IDs is
netscape OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { 2 16 840 1 113730 }
The hexadecimal byte value of this OID, when DER-encoded, is
0x60, 0x86, 0x48, 0x01, 0x86, 0xf8, 0x42
The following OIDs are mentioned in this document:
812 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • May 2002
Communicator checks that the size of the object being downloaded
matches the size of the encoded certificates. Therefore it is
important to ensure that no extra characters, such as
, are added at the end of the object.
Newline
or
NULL