What's In This Guide - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 6.2 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

What's in This Guide

• You understand the concepts of intranet, extranet, and Internet security and
the role of digital certificates in a secure enterprise, including the following
topics:
• You are familiar with LDAP, Netscape Directory Server, and working with
Netscape Console.
• You are familiar with the basic concepts of public-key cryptography and the
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol including the following:
What's in This Guide
This guide contains the following elements:
Chapter 1, "Overview" Provides a listing of the features of CMS, an overview
Chapter 2,
"Installation"
Chapter 3, "Certificate
Manager"
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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
SSL cipher suites
The purpose of and major steps in the SSL handshake
of how CMS works, an architectural overview of CMS,
and lists the standards used in the product.
Provides step-by-step installation instructions.
Provides information about installing a Certificate
Manager, step-by-step instructions for installing a
Certificate Manager, an overview of the configuration
options for a Certificate Manager, information about
Federal Bridge CA, and information on setting up a
cloned CA.