<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SSL Certificates HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Generalities" HREF="c36.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="BOOK" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="BOOK" ><A NAME="AEN1"><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2">SSL Certificates HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN5">Franck Martin</H3 ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision v0.5</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-10-20</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: FM</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Adding IPsec information from Nate Carlson, natecars@natecarlson.com / Adding IMAPS and POPS information from Bill Shirley, webnut@telocity.com / Adding WinCrypt information from Colin McKinnon, colin@wew.co.uk</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision v0.4</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-06-22</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: FM</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Various corrections - adding ASCII Art</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision v0.3</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-05-09</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: FM</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Adding x509v3 extension information - Correcting spelling</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision v0.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-12-06</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: FM</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Adding openssl.cnf file / Adding CRL info from Averroes, a.averroes@libertysurf.fr / Correcting spelling</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision v0.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-11-18</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: FM</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Creation of the HOWTO</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN34"><P ></P ><P >A first hand approach on how to manage a certificate authority (CA), and issue or sign certificates to be used for secure web, secure e-mail, or signing code and other usages.</P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="c36.html" >Generalities</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="x38.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="x64.html" >What is SSL and what are Certificates?</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="x114.html" >What about S/Mime or other protocols?</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="c118.html" >Certificate Management</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="x120.html" >Installation</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="x160.html" >Create a Root Certification Authority Certificate.</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="x171.html" >Create a non root Certification Authority Certificate.</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="x175.html" >Install the CA root certificate as a Trusted Root Certificate</A ></DT ><DT >2.5. <A HREF="x195.html" >Certificate management</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="c244.html" >Using Certificates in Applications</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="x246.html" >Securing Internet Protocols.</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="x282.html" >Securing E-mails.</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="x317.html" >Securing Files</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="x330.html" >Securing Code</A ></DT ><DT >3.5. <A HREF="x341.html" >IPSec</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="c398.html" >Global PKI</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >4.1. <A HREF="x400.html" >Current PKIs</A ></DT ><DT >4.2. <A HREF="x405.html" >The need for a Global PKI</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c36.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Generalities</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >