Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-08-01 Thread Wai Choi
For the validation process, I would agree that putting the whole cert chain in the server side's keyring is a better approach so that the client side only needs to have the root certificate in its keyring. It is simpler and it can avoid the scenario if the client has an expired intermediate

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-29 Thread Phil Smith III
Don Grinsell wrote: >In my experience (ACF2) intermediate certs are also inserted using CERTAUTH. Essentially anything in the certificate chain for a SITECERT or USER cert is a CERTAUTH item. As I read and learn more about this, I'm convinced that the above is incorrect. My understanding is

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-28 Thread Ward, Mike S
: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate Actually with RDATALIB, you should be able to share a cert with multiple regions as well without using SITE. Rob Schramm On Wed, Jul 27, 2016, 12:01 PM Ward, Mike S <mw...@ssfcu.org> wrote: > I know that a site certificate can b e shared by many CIC

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-27 Thread Rob Schramm
4, 2016 1:02 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate > > I've never understood how you choose between adding a certificate as > CERTAUTH, SITE, or user. And not having a lot of luck Googling for it. Can > anyone describe the choice, o

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-27 Thread Ward, Mike S
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate I've never understood how you choose between adding a certificate as CERTAUTH, SITE, or user. And not having a lot of luck Googling

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
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Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-18 Thread Wai Choi
In RACF: 1. Only Certificate Authority(CA) certificate SHOULD issue certificates for others - for a user, for a server, for another CA. 2. For a self-signed CA certificate, we call it a root certificate. 3. A CA certificate signed by another CA is called an intermediate CA. 4. CA

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-18 Thread Neubert, Kevin
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate >So: >CERTAUTH - root certs >SITE - server leaf certs (and intermediates?) >User - certs used to authenticate users to servers >Anyone want to agree/argue/validate/disprove? Nobody else has any thoughts on this? S

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-18 Thread Grinsell, Don
IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate > > >So: > > >CERTAUTH - root certs > > >SITE - server leaf certs (and intermediates?) > > >User - certs used to authenticate users to servers > > > > >Anyone

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-18 Thread Gibney, Dave
Cert discussion is more frequent over on RACF-L :) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 2:45 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: CERTAU

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-18 Thread Phil Smith III
>So: >CERTAUTH - root certs >SITE - server leaf certs (and intermediates?) >User - certs used to authenticate users to servers >Anyone want to agree/argue/validate/disprove? Nobody else has any thoughts on this? Surely we aren't the only ones dealing with certificates (well, besides

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-14 Thread Phil Smith III
Dave Gibney wrote: >I could be wrong and I did use CERTAUTH inappropriately (should have been SITE) in the past. >I use: >CERTAUTH to sign other certs. >SITE for SERVERS >User for users :) I like this, Dave-it's certainly coherent and *sounds* logical! So: CERTAUTH - root certs SITE

Re: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-14 Thread Gibney, Dave
Smith III > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 11:02 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate > > I've never understood how you choose between adding a certificate as > CERTAUTH, SITE, or user. And not having a lot of luck Googling for it. Can &

CERTAUTH vs SITE vs user certificate

2016-07-14 Thread Phil Smith III
I've never understood how you choose between adding a certificate as CERTAUTH, SITE, or user. And not having a lot of luck Googling for it. Can anyone describe the choice, or point me at something coherent? Thanks. -- For