[Fedora-directory-users] certutil

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Tue Apr 8 19:50:41 UTC 2008


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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