Certificatescopeofuseext - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Table 11-19 CertificateRenewalWindowExt Configuration Parameters (Continued)
Parameter
relativeEndTime

CertificateScopeOfUseExt

The
Scope of Use Extension to certificates. The extension enables you to specify a list of
web sites that may request the use of a particular certificate for SSL client
authentication, thus aiding certificate-using applications to select certificates to
present to web sites and to control release of these certificates.
Description
Specifies the last opportunity for automatic renewal of the certificate that contains
this extension. Specifying a value for this parameter is optional; if you leave the
field blank, the certificate-using application is expected to use the expiration date
(notAfter value) in the certificate.
Permissible values: 0 or n.
• 0 specifies that the renewal window ends at the same time the certificate
expires; the endTime field of the extension will be set to the time the
certificate expires.
• n specifies a past or future time, in seconds, by which the certificate must be
renewed; the endTime field of the extension will be set to the specified time
since certificate issuance. You can specify the time period in seconds, minutes,
hours, days, or months. Use the following suffixes to indicate the time unit.
s - seconds
m - minutes
h - hours
D - days
M - months
For example, if you're issuing certificates with a validity period of two years and
want the renewal window to end a month after the certificates expire, and want to
specify the interval in months, you would enter 25M in this field. On the other
hand, if you want the renewal window to end 15 days before certificates expire,
then you would set the value to 705D ((23 months x 30 days) + 15 days).
Note that if you choose to extend the renewal window after the expiration date of
the certificate itself, your CA must maintain appropriate status information about
the certificate during that window in order to allow appropriate authentication in
the renewal process. (Automatic renewal may take place after the certificate has
expired, when it is not valid for other purposes.)
Example: 705D
CertificateScopeOfUseExt
Extension-Specific Policy Module Reference
plug-in module enables you to add the Certificate
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