Certificate Server Updated to Use non-Microsoft X.509 Certificate Authorities

• Microsoft Certificate Server version 2.0

SUMMARY

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 includes the ability for the Microsoft Certificate Server to join a non-Microsoft X.509 Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchy.

MORE INFORMATION

Changes made to Service Pack 6 include:

• Certificate server had several work-arounds and special processing when the encoding length was 7f. This caused the installation to fail during installing a CA. This special processing is now disabled by default.



• The Certificate Revocation List (CRL) is a list of revoked certificates that is digitally signed by the issuer of those certificates. Previously the certificates were not published by default; now the certificates are.



• Error reporting was improved. New errors are not introduced, but error detection was increased to ensure messages are published when errors are encountered.



• Certificate Server Setup has added the option for the administrator to control the keysize. This is done via a dropdown list with supported values (for example: 512, 1024, 2048, 4096). The default size is still 512.

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ServicePacks/

Additional query words:

Keywords : NT4SP6Fix
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo