[Pki-users] Creation of a server certificate with an itermediary CA attribute

[Taggart, Michelle]

This is extremely helpful.  I was able to make the profile work, I actually had to make a custom profile, but no other specifics required.

Thank you so much for the expedient help.  I'm hoping that in the future I can help and contribute in this project! :)

Thanks, 

Michelle Taggart 
x5166 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Fu" <cfu at redhat.com>
To: pki-users at redhat.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:43:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Pki-users] Creation of a server certificate with an itermediary CA	attribute

What defines the characteristics of a certificate is in the Extensions. 
The profile caCACert.cfg defines a generic CA cert which contains the 
necessary Extensions such as Basic Constraints, Subject Key Identifier, 
key usage and extended key usage etc. for a CA.  The profile 
caServerCert.cfg defines a generic SSL server cert which contains the 
necessary key usage and extended key usage etc. for an SSL server cert.
Technically, if you take the union of the two profiles in terms of the 
key and extended key usage, you come up with a CA cert that can act as 
an SSL server cert.
RFC 5280 contains more detail on which bits should or should not go with 
which if you are interested in learning more.

Also, intermediate CA or not, the profile should be the same, unless the 
Path Length Constraint in Basic Constraints matters to you, though which 
should be calculated for you if not unlimited.

Christina

On 07/23/2013 01:53 PM, Taggart, Michelle wrote:
> This might sound confusing, so let me rephrase.
>
> Is there an existing template to create a subordinate CA certificate?  If not, is there a cheatsheet on creating one?  I am able to get to the pkiconsole piece to create a new profile, but I'm hoping that I don't have to create one because truthfully that piece is starting to become way over my head. ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michelle Taggart
> x5166
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michelle Taggart"<mdemansana at philasd.org>
> To: "John Magne"<jmagne at redhat.com>
> Cc: pki-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 3:24:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pki-users] Creation of a server certificate with an itermediary CA	attribute
>
> I do see that.  What I'm confused is to what bits or attributes within the profile I need to include/exclude/add in order to make the sample Server Cert profile to also do CA function.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michelle Taggart
> x5166
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Magne"<jmagne at redhat.com>
> To: "Michelle Taggart"<mdemansana at philasd.org>
> Cc: pki-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:18:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Pki-users] Creation of a server certificate with an itermediary CA	attribute
>
> You could go into the directory /var/lib/pki-ca/profiles/ca
>
> Find the profile you want to clone, which is in a file XXXX.cfg
>
> Copy that file to a new name that you want.
>
> Put an entry for that new profile in the conf/CS.cfg file under the heading:
> profiles.list
>
>
> Then you could either manually edit this file if you know how to, or use the pkiconsole to add stuff to it.
>
> In order for the console to be able to edit a profile, it must be marked as "disabled" in the agent web interface.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michelle Taggart"<mdemansana at philasd.org>
> To: pki-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:38:38 AM
> Subject: [Pki-users] Creation of a server certificate with an itermediary CA	attribute
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm quite new at the concept, but is there a way to clone a server certificate profile and give it an intermediary CA attribute?  I'm trying to generate a cert that a proxy server uses to decrypt SSL traffic.  The CSR that the proxy creates requests for a server certificate with subCA ability, for issuing certificates.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michelle T
>
>
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