Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS)
This document provides information regarding configuring the Futurex Vectera Plus HSM with Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) using Futurex PKCS #11 libraries. For additional questions related to your HSM, see the relevant user guide.
From Red Hat's knowledge base website: "Red Hat Certificate System provides a powerful security framework to manage user identities and ensure communication privacy. Handling the major functions of the identity life cycle, Red Hat Certificate System simplifies enterprise-wide deployment and adoption of a public key infrastructure (PKI)."
Although each RHCS subsystem (CA, KRA, OCSP, TKS, TPS) provides a different service, all share a common architecture. For more information, please refer to the following Red Hat knowledge base article: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_certificate_system/9/html/planning_installation_ and_deployment_guide/sect-certificate-system-architecture-overview
The Guardian Series 3 introduces mission-critical viability to core cryptographic infrastructure, including:
- Centralization of device management
- Elimination of points of failure
- Distribution of transaction loads
- Group-specific function blocking
- User-defined grouping systems
Please see the applicable guide in the Futurex Portal, which covers configuring HSMs for PKCS #11 integrations by using the Guardian Series 3.