CertificateAuthority

System Design Description Overview

The main purpose of the Certificate Authority supporting core system is issuing signed certificates to be used in the local cloud. The issued certificates may be revoked from the Management Interface. Systems may check whether a certificate has been revoked, and refuse their acceptance.

Provided services

The Certificate Authority provides the following services:

• Echo
• Certificate validity checking
• Certificate signing

Use cases

1. Issue signed certificates to new consumers coming via the Onboarding Controller.
2. Handle certificate revocation.
3. Act as a trusted public key store.

Endpoints

• Endpoints
• Client
• Private
• Management

Latest documentation

• CertifgicateAuthority https://github.com/eclipse-arrowhead/core-java-spring#ca