A Look at Entrust/WebCA

Entrust/WebCA 1.01 consists of five main parts: the clientinterface, the admin interface, the WebCA admin, the WebCA manager, and theWebCA directory. The client interface lets clients request and retrievecertificates. The admin interface lets WebCA administrators submitadministrative commands, such as adding, deleting, revoking, and renewingcertificates. The WebCA admin executes these commands. The WebCA manager signscertificates, holds the CA signing-key pair, audits system activities, and holdsWebCA administrator and user information. The WebCA directory is an LDAPdirectory where WebCA stores all created and revoked certificates. The clientand admin interfaces are HTML files and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs.The WebCA admin, manager, and directory are NT services. The admin interface,WebCA admin, and WebCA manager are password-protected.

Entrust/WebCA 1.01 runs on NT Server 3.51 and NT Server 4.0 and requiresMicrosoft IIS 3.0 or Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0. You can install thesoftware on an existing NT server or a dedicated server. WebCA uses about 15MBof disk space for the software and 10MB of disk space for 500 certificates.Installation of WebCA is quick and straightforward. If you don't want tocustomize WebCA, you can use it immediately after installation.