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BlackBox Installation Requirements

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Hardware requirements (min):

  • 1 server PIII 1.0 Ghz / 512 MB RAM / 2X36GB HDD RAID 1 (mirroring) / NIC 10/100
  • HSM's as per the following list :
    • 1. SafeNet Luna SA (1 HSM + 1 backup token)
    • 2. nCipher nShield PCI (1 HSM + key backups on floppies or cd's)
    • 3. SPYRUS Links Series II USB HSM (1 USB HSM for production + 1 USB HSM for key backup)

Software requirement (min):

  • MS Windows server 2008

Infrastructure requirements (min):

  • 1 MS Active directory domain (FQDN must correspond to CA domain, eg. CUSTOMER.COM)
  • 1 Mail server hosted or not at customer premices but email of certificate holder must match AD FQDN, eg. xxxxxx@customer.com / yahoo or msn kind of email is not supported as mail domain does not match)
  • Network connectivity between AD and CA
  • Access to DNS servers configured as authoritative for that domain
  • 1 publicly available web server to host the certificate revocation list CRL (must be known at request time)
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