Design Guide

Table of Contents

Preface
1. General Design
1. Basic Hierarchy
2. Interfaces
2.1. Node
2.2. CA
2.3. RA
2.4. LDAP
2.5. Pub
3. Configuration
4. Database
5. Interface
6. Life cycle of the objects
7. Sub-Ca
7.1. Example 1
7.2. Example 2
2. Recommendations
1. Hardware Issues
1.1. Time
1.2. Failing disks
1.3. Hardware monitoring
2. Physical Security
2.1. Safes and Data organization
2.2. Buildings
3. Network Issues
4. Certificate Issues
4.1. CDPs
4.2. Application specific problems
5. Organizational Aspects
5.1. Dual Access Control
5.2. Privacy vs. Security
5.3. Enforcement of Access Control
5.4. Privacy Officer Integration
5.5. Enterprise Integration
5.6. Parallel use of several end user PKIs