Infineon Security Platform Solution

Enrolling Certificates

Certificates act as a mechanism for gaining confidence in the relationship between a public key and the entity that owns the corresponding private key. A certificate is a statement that is digitally signed by its issuer vouching that a given public key belongs to the subject who holds the certificate. Certificates typically carry information about the identity of the entity that has access to the private key corresponding to the public key that is mentioned in the certificate. 

A user certificate associated to one of the Cryptographic Service Providers delivered with the Security Platform Solution can be enrolled using the

• Certificate Snap-In running in the Microsoft Management Console or the
• Web application provided by Microsoft Windows server operating systems.

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