Chapter 3. Implementation details

Table of Contents
Prerequisites
Initialisation of the Certification Authority
User/Server key generation and signing

We shall give a technical overview of the processes of creating a certificate and operating the Certification Authority.

Prerequisites

We shall discuss here what software is needed to create a usable Certification Authority.

Useful open–source software

The following basic software can be used to comprise the functionality of a Certification Authority.

  • Unix™ or Unix™–like operating system.

  • SSL/TLS software

  • WWW server

  • SSL/TLS support in the WWW server

  • LDAP server

  • Perl interpreter