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Root Certificates and ISO Object Relationship

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Posted: 23 May 2003

Q:
KO wrote: In iChain 2.1, you put the root certificate of the CA for the back-end server in each accelerator. In 2.2, this is apparently not the case; the root certificate is somehow linked to the ISO object, and it is not clear in the administrator's guide how this relationship is supposed to work.



A:
With iChain 2.2, the ISO object has an attribute (iChainTrstedRootCOntainer) that points to a trusted root container where all trusted root certs are copied. When the proxy loads, it reads all the trusted (and intermediate) certs from this container, copies them to the sys:\system\troots directory, and uses them to validate any certs that it receives from secure remote LDAP or Web servers.

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