About This Guide; Recommended Knowledge; Examples And Formatting; Formatting For Examples And Commands - Red Hat SYSTEM 8.0 - MIGRATION GUIDE 7.X TO 8.0 Manual

About This Guide

This guide explains how to migrate a Red Hat Certificate System 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 deployment to
a Red Hat Certificate System 8.0. Installation and administration topics are covered in the Red Hat
Certificate System Administrator's Guide, while processing certificate requests and other aspects of
managing the certificate lifecycle is covered in Certificate System Agent's Guide and using smart cards
is covered in the Managing Smart Cards with the Enterprise Security Client. For more information on
the tools used in this migration guide, see the Certificate System Command-Line Tools Guide.

1. Recommended Knowledge

Before reading this guide, be familiar with the following concepts:
• Intranet, extranet, and Internet security and the role of digital certificates in a secure enterprise,
including the following topics:
• Encryption and decryption
• Public keys, private keys, and symmetric keys
• Significance of key lengths
• Digital signatures
• Digital certificates, including different types of digital certificates
• The role of digital certificates in a public-key infrastructure (PKI)
• Certificate hierarchies
• LDAP and Red Hat Directory Server
• Public-key cryptography and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, including the following:
• SSL cipher suites
• The purpose of and major steps in the SSL handshake

2. Examples and Formatting

2.1. Formatting for Examples and Commands

All of the examples for Red Hat Certificate System commands, file locations, and other usage are
given for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (32-bit) systems. Be certain to use the appropriate commands
and files for your platform.
To start the Red Hat Certificate System:
service pki-ca start
Example 1. Example Command
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