What This Course Doesn't Cover

This course will not teach you everything you need to know before deploying CMS4 in a mission-critical role.

Analysis & Planning

Implementing a network security service in corporate environments is a complex undertaking which requires substantial analysis and planning. There are significant issues in the pre-deployment process which are beyond the scope of this course; these topics are covered in great detail in a follow-up course, Netscape Security Services: PKI Analysis & Planning.

Cryptographic Theory

The technology used by CMS4 is based on modern cryptographic techniques that will only be covered at a high level in this course. We will not go into the underlying mathematical theory of combinatorics and prime number factorization.

Distributed Deployment

In real-world environments, CMS4 will typically be broken up into 3 functional components which would be deployed on 3 or more systems. This increases the security of the main component of CMS4, the Certificate Manager, by separating it from the routinely accessed components of CMS4, the Registration Manager and the Data Recovery Manager. In this course we'll install everything on a single system.

Advanced Administration

There are many aspects of administering CMS4 that won't be covered in this course. We'll just introduce some of the basic features so you can start experimenting on your own using a sample installation.

Integration With Other Services

This course won't cover integrating CMS4 with other network services such as messaging (email) or directory services.

CMS4 is often used in conjunction with an LDAP service such as Netscape's Directory Server v4. The integration of directory services with certificate services is covered in a follow-on course, Netscape Security Services: PKI Analysis & Planning


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