SimpleAuthority is a Certification Authority (CA) that is designed to be very easy to use. It generates and manages keys and certificates that provide cryptographic digital identities for people and/or computer servers. These identities are designed to be used in other applications such as for:
secure email - for digital signing and encryption of email
document signing - including PDF, Word and OpenOffice documents
VPN access - to provide a much higher level of security than username/password access
client SSL authentication - to control access to an online service such as a subversion repository or wiki
server SSL authentication - to authenticate a Web server to people within a known community.
What's new in this version:
Custom certificate types, both for user and CA certificates
Improved compatibility of PKCS#12 files
Support for PKCS#7 (.p7b or .p7c) certificate encoding format
Support for generating CRL files with PEM encoding
User notes field for recording comments against user entries
Compliance with rfc5280 (the successor to rfc3280)
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems: