Bundesdruckerei D-Trust-specific sections in MPKI
If necessary, information on Managed PKI of Bundesdruckerei D-Trust can be obtained from the website (www.bundesdruckerei.de).
Here, the connection to the Bundesdruckerei D-Trust CA is configured for automatically obtaining user certificates.
With the successful creation of a certificate via MPKI, all necessary CA certificates are transmitted by D-Trust and imported. |
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Depending on the contract, the necessary settings have to be made here. As a rule, these are made available by Bundesdruckerei upon the conclusion of the contract between the email domain owner and Bundesdruckerei.
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Specifies the URL that is to be accessed via the MPKI. As a rule, the URL is |
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Indication of the booked product. Generally, these are •BASIC_ENTERPRISE_ID •ADVANCED_ENTERPRISE_ID Additionally, TEAM ID products are offered, which are intended for organisations/group inboxes but not for individual persons. Alternatively, _1, _2, ... to _5 can be added to the above-mentioned product name. This stipulates the validity period of the certificates requested via MPKI with the corresponding number in years. If necessary, however, this function is to be activated in the D-Trust web portal. |
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This part appears in the certificate of the respective user in addition to the email address E as an extension of the field Applicant. "Applicant". Here, the entry O = [Organisation] is mandatory and must comply with the entry made in the D-Trust web portal.
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Section Domain specific parameters (optional)
If the SEPPmail Secure E-Mail Gateway manages several email domains (Managed Domains), this option can be used to specify specific parameters for creating user certificates for each domain.
After saving the domain specific option via Save entries, another input field appears in each case.
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Specifies the email domain or a special email address for which the following two parameters should be valid.
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Specification of the product, which may differ from the default parameter. |
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Specification of the product Default parameters Static subject part.
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Used for authentication vis-à-vis the certification authority provider (Bundesdruckerei D-Trust).
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Certificate for authentication vis-à-vis the certification authority (Bundesdruckerei D-Trust). This file is provided by Bundesdruckerei D-Trust and is provided with a password (see parameter PKCS12 password) If the access to the certification authority is successful, the following message appears at this point: an operator certificate with valid password has been found.
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Password to activate the "private keys" contained in the PKCS12 identity file. This is also provided by Bundesdruckerei D-Trust. |
Settings for the automatic renewal of certificates.
The validity period of the certificates of the individual users can be found in the file user-stats.csv which comes with the Daily Report (see also Groups statisticsadmin). This is especially helpful if no automatic renewal of certificates has been set. |
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This option is inactive by default and pre-set to 30. Initiates the automatic renewal of certificates of active users (Users) if the remaining validity period is the set value. One pre-condition in this respect is that the corresponding user sends an email within the set overlap time. This prevents certificates from being obtained for "corpses" in the Users menu, including certificates subject to a fee, if applicable. The thus initiated process runs overnight (!).
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By default, this option is inactive. This function obtains a certificate for all existing active Users, who are not in possession of a valid (!) certificate, automatically overnight (!).
Active Users are users who have sent an email in the last 30 days and do not have the State inactive.
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By clicking on Add or update..., the intermediate certificates under X.509 Root Certificates required for supplementing the certificate chain when signing are added/updated.
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The changes made are saved via the Save button.