[Pki-users] User-supplied public-key into cert

Christina Fu cfu at redhat.com
Wed Dec 17 20:52:22 UTC 2008


Marc Sauton wrote:
> Adewumi, Julius-p99373 wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to make CA sign a "user-supplied public-key" 
>> certificate, so that the
>>
> Unless I misunderstand this request, this is exactly how a RHCS CA 
> instance works upon receiving a client signed csr containing the 
> public key that is going to be a certificate once processed and signed 
> by a CA.
>>
>>
>> Cert is more or less like an ID card?
>> i.e The CA is not to generate key pairs but to just accept the data 
>> and put it in a  certificate as public-key for userid.
>>
> The RHCS CA only generate key pairs for its own sub systems during 
> configuration.
unless you set up server-side key generation with TPS, then in which 
case, the DRM will generate the keys for the users.


Christina
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