[Fedora-directory-users] certutil

[Chun Tat David Chu]

I posted a similar question on the NSS newsgroup and asked about usage of
certutil documented in the RH DS Admin Guide.
The response I got is that step 5 in section "using certutil" is a no-op.

For detail, please see
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thread/ae13056d51d189ac

- David


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> wrote:

> ggistra at aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Step 5 in section "Using certutil" of the The Directory Server
> > Administrator's Guide 7.1, Chapter 11, generates "the encryption key" using
> > the -G option. According to the certutil documentation, this generates a
> > public/private key pair.
> >
> I think it's the encryption key for the self signed CA you are creating.
>
> > /What is this key pair used for?/ It doesn't seem to be the key used for
> > the self-signed ceritficate or the server certificate, as the -S switch on
> > certutil -  judging by the available options for -S  - appears to generate a
> > new key pair.
> >  Thanks,
> > Gabi
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