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<bookinfo>
<title>The &kgpgcertmanager; Handbook</title>

<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Steffen</firstname>
<othername></othername>
<surname>Hansen</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>steffen@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>

<othercredit role="developer">
<firstname>Kalle</firstname>
<surname>Dalheimer</surname>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
</othercredit>

<othercredit role="developer">
<firstname>Jesper</firstname>
<surname>Pedersen</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>blackie@kde.org</email></address>
</affiliation>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
</othercredit>

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</authorgroup>

<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>

<date>2002-08-22</date>
<releaseinfo>0.00.00</releaseinfo>

<abstract>
<para>
&kgpgcertmanager; is a tool for managing X509 certificates.
</para>
</abstract>


<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>Kapp</keyword>
<keyword>X509</keyword>
<keyword>LDAP</keyword>
<keyword>gpg</keyword>
<keyword>gpgsm</keyword>
</keywordset>

</bookinfo>

<chapter id="introduction"> <title>Introduction</title> 

<para>&kgpgcertmanager; is a tool for managing X509 certificates in
the gpgsm keybox and for retrieving certificates from
<acronym>LDAP</acronym> servers.</para>

</chapter>

<chapter id="functions"><title>Functions</title>

<sect1 id="search"><title>Searching</title>
<para>When &kgpgcertmanager; starts, it is ready to search for certificates
in the local keybox. Just type in part of the name of a certificate
owner, press the find-button and the results will display.</para>
<para>When double-clicking on the results, a dialog with information
about the certificate will be displayed.</para> 
<para>The combobox in the toolbar can be switched from "in local
certificated" to "in external certificates" to search the LDAP servers
for certificates. When the results are displayed, each certificate can
be double-clicked to show an informational dialog. This dialog has a
button "Import to Local" that allows the certificate to imported into
the local keybox.</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="quit"><title>File/Quit</title>
<para>The menuitem
<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Quit</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
exits the application.
</para></sect1>

<sect1 id="redisplay"><title>View/Redisplay</title>
<para>The menuitem <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Redisplay</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
performs the current query again and displays the retults.
</para></sect1>

<sect1 id="newcert"><title>Certificates/New Certificate</title>
<para>The menuitem
<menuchoice><guimenu>Certificates</guimenu><guimenuitem>New
Certificate</guimenuitem></menuchoice> starts the certificate 
request creating wizard. It will giude you through a number of steps
to create a certificate request. This request can, at the end of the
wizard, either be sent to a certificate authority (CA) to be signed or
saved to a file (for example a floppy, so it can be shipped to the
CA).</para>
<para>Whenever you are done with a step in the wizard, press
<guibutton>Next</guibutton> to go to the next step (or
<guibutton>Back</guibutton> to review steps that are already
completed). The certificate request creation can be cancelled at any
point by pressing the <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> button.
</para>
<para>The first step in the wizard is to type in your personal data
for the certificate. The fields to fill out are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Name:</guilabel> Your name :)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Location:</guilabel>The town or city you live in.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Organisation:</guilabel>The organisation you represent
(for example the company you work for)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Department:</guilabel>The organisational unit you're
in. For example "Logistics".</para> 
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Country code:</guilabel>The two letter code for the
country you're living in. For example "US".</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Email address:</guilabel>Your email address. Be sure
to get that one right -- this will be the address people will be
sending mail to when they use your certificate.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para><para>
The next step in the wizard is to select whether to store the
certificate in a file or send it directly to a CA. You'll have to
specify the filename or email address to send the certificate request to.
</para></sect1>


<sect1 id="import"><title>Import/Certificate</title>
<para>The <menuchoice><guimenu>Import</guimenu><guimenuitem>Certificate...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
 menuitem allows you to import a certificate from a
file into the local keybox</para><para>The format of the certificate
file should be one understood be the gpg-backend. Please refer to the
gpg and gpgsm manuals for specifics about this.
</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="crl"><title>Import/CRL</title>
<para>Normally, Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are handled
transparently by the backend, but it might sometimes by useful to
import a CRL manually into the local CRL cache.</para>
<para>This can be done from the
<menuchoice><guimenu>Import</guimenu><guimenuitem>CRL...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
menuitem.</para>
<para>NOTE: For CRL import to work, the "dirmngr" tool must be in the
search PATH. If the <guimenuitem>From File...</guimenuitem> menuitem
is disabled, you should contact the system administrator and ask
him/her to install dirmngr.
</para>
<para>
You can view the contents of the local CRL cache from the menuitem
<menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>CRL
cache...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This will display a dialog with
information about the CRLs in the cache and the fingerprints of the
certificates in each CRL.
</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="help"><title>Help</title>


<para>The <guimenu>Help</guimenu> menu contains the standard &kde;
help menu.</para>

&help.menu.documentation;

</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="credits-and-license">
<title>Credits and License</title>

<para>&kgpgcertmanager; copyright 2002 Steffen Hansen, Kalle Dalheimer
and Jesper Pedersen.</para>

<para>Documentation copyright 2002 Steffen Hansen</para>

<itemizedlist>
<title>Contributors</title>
<listitem>
<para>Steffen Hansen <email>hansen@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Kalle Dalheimer <email>kalle@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Jesper Pedersen <email>blackie@kde.org</email></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

&underGPL;
&underFDL;
</chapter>

&documentation.index; 
</book>

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