Before reading this guide, be familiar with the following concepts:
Intranet, extranet, and Internet security and the role of digital certificates in a secure enterprise, including the following topics:
Encryption and decryption
Public keys, private keys, and symmetric keys
Significance of key lengths
Digital signatures
Digital certificates, including different types of digital certificates
The role of digital certificates in a public-key infrastructure (PKI)
Certificate hierarchies
LDAP and Red Hat Directory Server
Public-key cryptography and the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, including the following:
SSL cipher suites
The purpose of and major steps in the SSL handshake