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Authority Provider Legacy

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Authority Provider Legacy is deprecated and will be removed in future release.

Overview​

Authority Provider Legacy interface provides specific set of certificate management functions that support only API operations of the EJBCA. The interfaces of the Authority Provider Legacy contain:

  • Authority Management
  • Certificate Management
  • End Entity Management
  • Profiles Management

How it works​

Authority Provider Legacy provides the ability to communicate with the EJBCA certification authorities.

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The Authority Provider Legacy interface is designed to work only with the EJBCA. If you are looking to support different technology, consider Authority Provider v2 interface.

Provider objects​

Authority objects are managed in the platform through the Authority Provider Legacy implementation.

Processes​

The following processes are associated with the Authority Provider Legacy and management of the Authority objects.

Authority Instance Management​

Create Authority Instance​

Get Authority Instance Details​

Update Authority Instance​

Delete Authority Instance​

The below diagram shows the sequence of messages that are exchanged between the client, core, and provider to delete an Authority instance.

Certificate Management​

Issue Certificate​

Renew Certificate​

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Renewal of the certificate is not supported by the Authority Provider Legacy.

Revoke Certificate​

Specification and example​

The Authority Provider Legacy implements Common Interfaces and the following additional interfaces:

The OpenAPI specification of the Authority Provider Legacy can be found here: Connector API - Authority Provider Legacy.