DoD

DoD planned two phases for their cross-certification process with the FBCA. The first phase was for the FBCA to issue an one-way cross-certification, which has been completed. Using their Netscape CA, DoD will issue a certificate to the FBCA as the second phase.

Certificate Authority (CA) demonstrations were conducted over a few days and each technical requirement was addressed. Directory demonstrations were completed with the support of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST setup a temporary X.500 (Critical Path border IDS 4.0) directory that DoD can use until a more permanent solution is established. DoD provided NIST with the appropriate Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) and CA Certificates in order to populate the directory. The Cross Certificate Pair was generated by Mitretek and sent to NIST for posting in the DoD border directory.

Since then, DoD contracted DigitalNet in September of 2003, to chain their ISODE M-Vault v10.2 directory to the Prototype FBCA directory. DigitalNet used a superior reference, which allows the DoD directory to have access to all cross-certified entities without additional configuration.

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