JGridstart/Certificate Authorities

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</sidebar>jGridstart is ultimately deployed by certificate authorities that want to give users an easy way to request their user certificates on their local machine.

This page is very much a work in progress, but should provide an overview. Please contact the author if you want to deploy jGridstart.

jGridstart features

The most important features of jGridstart are:

• Graphical interface for local certificate management, with wizard for requests and renewals.
• Supports all major desktop platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
• Supports installation into many web browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, and more
• Allows import/export from/to PEM and PKCS#12

Requirements for certificate authority

jGridstart is currently optimised for certificate authorities that have a manual step in processing certificate requests. This means that once a request is sent by a user, he has to wait until the certificate authority manually creates his certificate, which can take a couple of days. (Although work is being done to connect to Confusa, an online certificate authority.)

The following is required to use jGridstart:

• Interface for submitting requests and retrieving issued certificates (usually a RESTful HTTP interface)
• List of registration authorities and organisations where the user can go for identity verification
• Website hosting jGridstart and a customized JNLP file.

Also see README for more information.