EJBCA Concept Guide

This guide describes the in-depth structure of EJBCA concepts, in order to give an understanding for how EJBCA is designed and how the UI corresponds to various PKI concepts.

For more hands-on instructions for various day to day administrative tasks, see the EJBCA User Guide.

For information on installing EJBCA, see the EJBCA Installations section.

• Crypto Tokens Overview

• Certificate Profiles Overview

  • Certificate Profile Fields

  • Custom Certificate Extensions

  • Extended Key Usages

• Certificate Authority Overview

  • CA Fields

  • Certificate Transparency

  • Approvals and Approval Profiles

  • Publishers

  • Validators

• End Entity Overview

  • End Entity Profiles

• Internal Key Bindings

• Peer Communication

  • EJBCA Peer Systems

  • Internal Key Bindings

• Roles and Rights

• Remote Protocols Overview

  • Enrollment Protocols

    • ACME (TBD)

    • EST

    • SCEP

  • Certificate Management Protocols

    • CMP

    • EJBCA Certificate Management REST Interface

    • EJBCA Web Services

  • Certificate Status Protocols

    • OCSP

  • General Protocols

    • EJBCA Web Services