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This chapter provides an overview of Netscape Certificate Management System
(CMS), a highly configurable set of software components and tools for creating,
deploying, and managing certificates. Based on open standards for certificate
management, Certificate Management System provides a complete, customizable,
robust, scalable, and high-performance certificate management solution for your
public-key infrastructure (PKI), extranets and intranets.
This chapter contains the following sections:
•
Features
•
How Certificate Management System Works
•
Deployment Scenarios
•
System Architecture
•
CMS SDK
•
Support for Open Standards
Features
This section discusses the features of CMS.
Subsystems
CMS has four subsystems to provide flexibility in setting up your PKI. The
subsystems are highly-cofigurable. The four subsystems that comprise CMS are as
follows:
Chapter 1
Overview
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