Setting up a PKI Environment using OpenSSL

Mark Hack markhack at markhack.com
Tue Mar 28 14:00:56 UTC 2023


You are asking for a full blown PKI  and rolling your own is less than
prudent for a complex area with a lot of security and availability
implications.
Look at http://www.openxpki.org/
RegardsMark

On Tue, 2023-03-28 at 19:14 +0530, Newbie User wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I would like to explore OpenSSL more by setting up a PKI environment
> to test. Please let me know relevant resources that would be helpful
> in setting up a:
> 
> 1) Root CA
> 2) Sub-ordinate CA
> 3) Clustering of CA for load balancing
> 4) Managing the internal DB (if any) by OpenSSL or recommended to use
> as we need to cleanup MS DBs for CA
> 5) Setting up Policy Servers, 3 tier CA hierarchy
> 6) Setting up network devices enrollment servers, OCSP servers the
> way we have in MS PKI
> 7) Web Enrollment Servers, CRL Servers setup
> 8) Cross forest enrollment, publishing certificate templates
> 
> There are many resources available but need to know the right ones to
> save time as per experience of other people. Please let me know if
> you have some tested links to setup these topics as mentioned above
> 
> Regards
> 
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