Creating a CA certificate in SSL
Certificates can be created by a certificate authority
(CA) when a CAClient object is configured to connect to the CA to
create the certificate. Certificates created by a certificate authority
(CA) with a CA client are tracked in the security configuration in
an object called CACertificate
. The certificate
is stored in a keystore and a CACertificate
object
is added to the configuration to reference the certificate. CA certificates
are personal certificates.
Before you begin
Note: In this release of WebSphere® Application Server, the valid
key size values are 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, and 8192. The default key
size value is 2048 bits.
Procedure
Results
An existing certificate request can be used to create the CA certificate or a new certificate request can be created. This panel uses the requestCAClient AdminTask to create the CA certificate.