Description:

The Certificate Authority (CA) is a required PKI subsystem which issues,
renews, revokes, and publishes certificates as well as compiling and
publishing Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs).

The Certificate Authority can be configured as a self-signing Certificate
Authority, where it is the root CA, or it can act as a subordinate CA,
where it obtains its own signing certificate from a public CA.

This package is a part of the PKI Core used by the Certificate System.


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Certificate System (CS) is an enterprise software system designed
to manage enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) deployments.

PKI Core contains fundamental packages required by Certificate System,
and consists of the following components:

* pki-setup
* pki-symkey
* pki-native-tools
* pki-util
* pki-util-javadoc
* pki-java-tools
* pki-java-tools-javadoc
* pki-common
* pki-common-javadoc
* pki-selinux
* pki-ca
* pki-silent

which comprise the following PKI subsystems:

* Certificate Authority (CA)

For deployment purposes, Certificate System requires ONE AND ONLY ONE
of the following "Mutually-Exclusive" PKI Theme packages:

* ipa-pki-theme (IPA deployments)
* dogtag-pki-theme (Dogtag Certificate System deployments)
* redhat-pki-theme (Red Hat Certificate System deployments)