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  • emCA Certificate Manager
  • Introduction
    • Summary
    • Key Features
    • Key Components
    • Architecture
    • Use Cases
    • Security
    • Role based Access
    • Licensing
    • How emCA Works ?
  • Release Versions
    • V4.2.6
    • V4.2.5
    • V4.2.4
      • User Manual
        • CA Administrator
          • CA Admin Login
          • Dashboard Page
          • View CA Hierachy
          • Manage User Certificates
            • Search
          • Manage CA Certiifcates
            • Search
          • Manage User & Roles
            • Manage User
            • Create New User
            • View Groups
          • Reports
            • Application Logs
            • CRL Report
            • Certificate Statistics
            • All Certificates
            • Active / Revoked / Suspended / Expired Certificates
          • Application Settings
            • Manage License
            • Manage Authentication Matrix
            • Certificate Features
        • Administrator
          • View Hierachy
          • Manage Profiles
            • Manage Certificate Profiles
              • X509 certificate profile
              • Create CVC CA certificate profile
              • Create EMV Certificate Profile
            • Manage Key Profiles
            • Manage CRL Profiles
          • Manage User Certificates
          • Manage CA Certificates
          • Manage Keystores
          • Manage Users & Roles
          • Reports
          • Application Settings
          • Setup & Registeration
          • External Applications
          • Mail Settings
          • Manage Certificate Features
        • Officer
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Manage User Certificates
          • Manage CA Certificates
          • Manage CRLs
          • Manage EMV Certificate
          • Manage EMV CRLs
          • Manage Keystores
          • Manage OCSP Certificates
          • Recover User keypair
          • Reports
        • Auditor
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Reports
      • emCA_Deployment_Document
    • V4.2.3
      • User Manual
        • CA Administrator
          • CA Admin Login
          • Dashboard Page
          • View CA Hierachy
          • Manage User Certificates
            • Search
          • Manage CA Certiifcates
            • Search
          • Manage User & Roles
            • Manage User
            • Create New User
            • View Groups
          • Reports
            • Application Logs
            • CRL Report
            • Certificate Statistics
            • All Certificates
            • Active / Revoked / Suspended / Expired Certificates
          • Application Settings
            • Manage License
            • Manage Authentication Matrix
            • Certificate Features
        • Administrator
          • View Hierachy
          • Manage Profiles
            • Manage Certificate Profiles
              • X509 certificate profile
              • Create CVC CA certificate profile
              • Create EMV Certificate Profile
            • Manage Key Profiles
            • Manage CRL Profiles
          • Manage User Certificates
          • Manage CA Certificates
          • Manage Keystores
          • Manage Users & Roles
          • Reports
        • Officer
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Manage User Certificates
          • Manage CA Certificates
          • Manage CRLs
          • Manage EMV Certificate
          • Manage EMV CRLs
          • Manage Keystores
          • Manage OCSP Certificates
          • Recover User keypair
          • Reports
        • Auditor
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Reports
        • Operator
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Backup
    • V4.2.2
      • User Manual
        • CA Administrator
          • CA Admin Login
          • Dashboard Page
          • View CA Hierachy
          • Manage User Certificates
            • Search
          • Manage CA Certiifcates
            • Search
          • Manage User & Roles
            • Manage User
            • Create New User
            • View Groups
          • Reports
            • Application Logs
            • CRL Report
            • Certificate Statistics
            • All Certificates
            • Active / Revoked / Suspended / Expired Certificates
          • Application Settings
            • Manage License
            • Manage Authentication Matrix
            • Certificate Features
        • Administrator
          • View Hierachy
          • Manage Profiles
            • Manage Certificate Profiles
              • X509 certificate profile
              • Create CVC CA certificate profile
              • Create EMV Certificate Profile
            • Manage Key Profiles
            • Manage CRL Profiles
          • Manage User Certificates
          • Manage CA Certificates
          • Manage Keystores
          • Manage Users & Roles
          • Reports
        • Officer
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Manage User Certificates
          • Manage CA Certificates
          • Manage CRLs
          • Manage EMV Certificate
          • Manage EMV CRLs
          • Manage Keystores
          • Manage OCSP Certificates
          • Recover User keypair
          • Reports
        • Auditor
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Reports
        • Operator
          • CA Hierarchy
          • Backup
    • V4.2.1
    • V4 .0.17
      • Open API Specifications
        • Prerequisites
        • Process for calling emCA API
        • How to Generate an Authentication Key
        • How to Generate Signed Data (PKCS#7)
        • How to create JSON Object before Encryption
        • How to encrypt JSON object
        • How to generate a request JSON Object
        • API Methods
          • API Method -createCertificate and createCertificateP7B
          • API Method -createPKCS12
          • API Method -getCertificate
          • API Method - revoke
          • API Method - verifySignature
          • API Method - createCertificateById and createcertificateP7BById
          • API Method - createPKCS12ById
          • API Method - reinstate
          • API Method - suspend
          • API Method -rekey
          • API Method-getCertificateByRequestID
          • API Method - createCustomCertificateById
          • API Method - getExpirySoonCertificate
          • API Method - getProfileinfoByProfilename
          • API Method -getCertificateProfileList
          • API Method- createCertificatesByIdWithMultipleCsrData
          • API Method - getPKCS12
          • API Method - createeSignCustomCertificateById
        • ePassport Certificate API Methods
        • emClient.jar
        • SOAP Information
        • ACME Protocol
        • CMP Protocol
        • EST Protocol
        • SCEP Protocal
      • User Manual
        • View CA Hierarchy
          • Delete Certificate and Keypair
          • Search Certificate
          • View Certificate
          • Export Certificate
        • Manage Profiles
          • Key Profiles
            • Edit
            • Key Profile Creation
              • Create HSM Key Profile
              • Create PKCS12 Key Profile
          • Certificate Profiles
            • Certificate Profile Creation
              • Create CA Self Signed Certificate
              • Create User Certificate Profile
              • Create OSCP Certificate Profile
          • CRL Profiles
            • New CRL Profile
        • Manage User Certificate
          • Enroll
            • Generation of Soft Token Certificate
            • Generation of Hard Token Certificate
          • Revoke/Suspend
          • Reinstate
          • Search
          • Sign CSR
          • Manual Authorize Certificates
          • SCT Request
        • Manage CA Certificate
          • Enroll
            • Create Self-Signed CA Certificate
            • Create Sub CA Certificate
            • Create OSCP Certificate
            • Generate Signing CSR
          • Manage CA Certificates
            • Search Certificate
            • Import Certificate
          • Revoke CA Certificate
          • Search
          • Sign CSR
          • Import PKCS12
        • Manage CRLS
          • Create CRL
          • Update CRL
          • Download CRL
          • Scheduler Configuration
        • Manage OSCP Certificates
          • Configure OSCP Certificate
          • OSCP Configuration
        • Recover User Keypair
          • Recover
            • Key Recovery with new Password
            • Key Recovery with old Password
        • Manage Users and Roles
          • Manage User
            • Create New User
            • View all users created
            • View individual user
            • Deactivate user
            • Activate user
            • Renew
            • Delete User
          • View Groups
        • Reports
          • Types of Reports
          • CRL Reports
          • Certificate Stastics
          • All Certificates Reports
          • Active Certificates Report
          • Revoked Certificates Report
          • Suspended Certificates Report
          • Expired Certificates Report
        • Application Logs
        • Backup
          • Manual Backup on Local Server
          • Manual Backup on Remote Server
          • Automatic Backup on Local Server
          • Automatic Backup on Remote Server
        • Backup Restoration
        • Dashboard Features
          • View all Active CA and User Certificates
          • View Revoked CA and User Certificates
          • View all expiring soon CA and User Certificates
          • View all CRL-based Certificates
        • Application Settings
          • Manage License
          • Setup and Registration
          • External Applications Onboarding
        • Manage Key stores
    • V4.0.13
      • User Manual
        • View CA Hierarchy
          • Delete Certificates & Key Pair
          • Search Certificate
          • View Certificate
          • Export Certificate
        • Manage Profiles
          • Key Profile
            • Edit
            • Key Profile Creation
              • Create HSM Key Profile
              • Create PKCS 12 Keyprofile
        • Certificate Profiles
          • Certificate Profile Creation
            • Create CA Self Signed Certificate Profile
            • Create SubCA Certificate Profile
            • Create User CA Certificate
            • Create OCSP Certificate
        • Manage User Certificate
          • Enroll
            • Generation Of Softtoken Certificate
            • Generation Of Hardtoken Certificate
          • Revoke/Suspend
          • Reinstate
          • Search
          • Sign CSR
          • Manual Authorize Certificates
          • SCT Request
        • Manage CA Certificate
          • Enroll
            • Create Selfsigned CA Certificate
            • Create Sub CA Certificate
            • Create OCSP Certificate
            • Generate Signing CSR
          • Manage CA Certificates
            • Search
            • Import Certificate
        • Revoke CA Certificate
        • Search
        • Sign CSR
        • Import PKCS 12
        • Manage CRLs
          • Create CRL
          • Update CRL
          • Download CRL
          • Scheduler Configuration
        • Manage OCSP Certificate
          • Configure OCSP Certificates
          • OCSP Configuration
        • Key Recovery
          • Recover
            • Key Recovery With New Password
            • Key Recovery With Old Password
        • Manage Users & Roles
          • Manage Users
            • Create New User
            • View All Users Created
            • View Individual Users
            • Deactive Users
            • Activate Users
            • Renew
            • Delete
            • Export All users
          • View Groups
        • Reports
          • Features
          • Types Of Reports
            • CRL Reports
            • Certificate Statistics
            • All Certificate Reports
            • Active Certificate Reports
            • Revoked Certificate Reports
            • Suspended Certificate Reports
            • Expired Certificates Reports
        • Application Logs
        • Backup & Restore
          • Backup
            • Manual Backup on Local Server
            • Manual Backup On Remote Server
            • Automatic Backup on Local Server
            • Automatic Backup On Remote Server
          • Backup Restoration
        • Dashboard Features
          • View All Active CA and User Certificates
          • View Revoked CA & User Certificates
          • View All Expiring Soon & User Certificates
          • View All CRL Based Certificates
        • Application Settings
          • Manage emCA Authentication Matrix
          • External Application On-Boarding
        • Manage Keystore
  • Deployment Models
    • Single Instance
    • High Availability Deployment
    • Hybrid Deployment
    • Cloud Deployment
    • List of Prerequisites
      • Installations
        • Token Drivers
        • emCA Websocket
    • emCA Deployment Guide
      • Prerequisites
        • Other Prerequisites
      • emCA
      • emCA API
      • OCSP Core
      • OCSP Responder Web
      • TSA Core
      • TSA Web
      • Scheduler
      • DB Password Encryptor
      • emCA Initial Setup
      • Protocols Configuration Overview
        • ACME Protocol
        • EST Protocol
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  1. Introduction

How emCA Works ?

This section outlines steps that can be followed in general for setting up of a Certifying Authority whether it is self-signed or signed by external root CA in emCA application for issuance of digital certificates to users and devices. This includes:

Creation of users: The CA Administrator has to create an Administrator and then the Administrator has to create other users such as Officers, and Auditors. This is done by CA Administrator who is the Root administrator.

Create Key Profile: The administrator has to create the key profile using the profile management option available in the emCA Application. This is required for defining where the key pair has to be stored. For user certificates, the key profile has to be created for tokens, and for CA Certificates, the key profile can be created for HSM (Hardware Security Module). The same key profile is used during certificate profile creation. This activity is done by the user with the Administrator role.

Create CA Certificate Profile: Here initially certificate profile has to be created for CA Certificate. This activity is done by the user with the Administrator.

Generation of CA Certificate: Once the certificate profile for a CA is generated, the CA Certificate is generated based on the profile. This can be self-signed or signed by an external Root CA. Based on the key profile mapped to the Certificate profile, the CA’s key pair is either stored on the HSM or any other device. This activity is done by the user with the Officer role.

Generation of Sub CA/ Issuing CA (OPTIONAL): This is an optional activity. Based on the requirement, the Officer can generate a sub-CA or issuing CA signed with either Root CA. This activity is done by the user with Officer role.

Configure CRL: Once the CA and Sub/Issuing CAs are generated, the Officer has to configure CRL for each of the CA or Sub CA or Issuing CA. This activity is done by the user with Officer role.

Create User Certificate Profile: Once the CA certificate is successfully generated and stored then later User certificate profiles can be created based on the requirement such as a signing certificate profile, encryption certificate profile, SSL certificate profile, Code signing certificate profile, Document signer certificate profile etc. This activity is done by the user with the Administrator role.

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