Certificate Server

Novell^® Certificate Server enables the use of public keys cryptography and public key certificates in an eDirectory-enabled network. Certificate Server allows you to request, manage, and store public key certificates and their associated key pairs in the eDirectory tree, and establish and manage an eDirectory tree certificate authority (CA) that is specific to your eDirectory tree and to your organization.

Certificate Server also works with most commercial certificate authorities and with the major certificate authority software.Certificate Server optionally generates PKCS #10 formatted certificate signing requests (CSR) that can be used by commercial or external CAs.

Certificate Server consists of a PKI NLM^TM and a snap-in module to ConsoleOne^TM. A network administrator uses ConsoleOne as the administration point for Certificate Server.

Certificate Server uses the cryptography services provided by the Novell International Cryptography Infastructure (NICI). NICI is a modular infrastructure that offers replaceable cryptography engines. As such, a single version of Certificate Server can be used in NetWare installations throughout the world. Certificate Server derives all supported cryptography and signature algorithms, as well as supported key sizes from NICI.

For additional information and procedures, refer to the Help system or to the Novell Certificate Server Administration Guide.