Managing Digital Certificates across the Enterprise

Digital certificates overview

In this chapter, we present a high-level view of the purpose of digital certificates and how they might be used.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•1.1, “Goal” on page 2

•1.2, “Overview” on page 2

•1.3, “Primary question” on page 3

•1.4, “Behind the scenes” on page 7

•1.5, “Certificate authorities” on page 11

•1.6, “Authentication versus authorization” on page 13

•1.7, “Use of a digital certificate” on page 13

1.1 Goal

The goal of this chapter is to help you gain a high-level understanding of digital certificates ...