Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS)

this document provides information regarding configuring the {{futurex}} {{vectera}} hsm with red hat certificate system (rhcs) by using our pkcs #11 libraries for additional questions related to your hsm, see the relevant user guide about red hat certificate system 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) basic architecture of an rhcs deployment although each rhcs subsystem (ca, kra, ocsp, tks, and tps) provides a different service, all share a common architecture for more information, 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 guardian integration the {{guard}} 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 see the applicable guide in the {{futurex}} portal for configuring hsms with the {{guard}} , including pkcs #11 and cng configuration