Netscape NETSCAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5, Installation And Setup Manual

Page: 200 / 866

Certificate Manager Configuration
200 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • October 2001
❍
CA (Yes)_________
❍
Certification path length (Null)_______________________
The certificate chain path length, if specified, determines the maximum
number of certificates in a chain, starting with the end-entity certificate. If you
do not specify this attribute, the length of the chain is unlimited.
• Netscape certificate type (Yes)_____________
❍
SSL client (No)_________
❍
Object-signing (No)_________
❍
SSL server (No)_________
❍
S/MIME CA (Yes)_________
❍
S/MIME (No)_________
❍
Object-signing CA (Yes)_________
❍
SSL CA (Yes)_________
• Authority Key Identifier (Yes) ________________
• Subject Key Identifier (Yes) ________________
• Key usage (No)_____________
If you decide to include the key usage extension, the following key usage bits
are set by default:
❍
digitalSignature
❍
keyCertSign
❍
CRLSign
• Additional Extension (No)___________________________
To add extensions not included by default by Certificate Management System,
you will need to paste the base-64 encoding of a sequence of extensions into the
wizard.
CA Signing Certificate Request
If you are installing a subordinate CA, you need to specify where to send your
request for a CA signing certificate.