Description:

The PKI Common Framework is required by the following four PKI subsystems:

the Certificate Authority (CA),
the Data Recovery Manager (DRM),
the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Manager, and
the Token Key Service (TKS).

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)