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This release of Apache Geronimo allows you to define your own Certification Authority (CA) and issue certificates in reply to Certificate Signing Requests (CSR). The Certification Authority portlet is avaiable by clicking Certificate Authority on the left menu in the Geronimo Administration Console.

• #Configuring a Certification Authority
• #Signing certificate requests

Configuring a Certification Authority

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Signing certificate requests

The Certificate Properties File Realm section cover in great detail how to create a new keystore and certificate and how to create a CSR and then import the CA's reply. In this section we will focus on how the CA manages and signs the client CSR.

We will start from the point where you generate the CSR, here is the example we used for the Certificate Properties File Realm section.