How we tested key management

The Key Management Servers were tested with standard applications on both Windows and Linux environments, using Windows 2008 with the Microsoft Certificate Authority, IIS and SQL Server 2005, and Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache 2.2.12. We tested the products by setting each up to issue keys, revoke and renew keys, monitor for correct operation, create reports and logs of activity, setting policies for issuing keys and revoking them, and looking at the granularity of management capabilities.

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The Key Management Servers were tested with standard applications on both Windows and Linux environments, using Windows 2008 with the Microsoft Certificate Authority, IIS and SQL Server 2005, and Ubuntu 9.04 with Apache 2.2.12. We tested the products by setting each up to issue keys, revoke and renew keys, monitor for correct operation, create reports and logs of activity, setting policies for issuing keys and revoking them, and looking at the granularity of management capabilities.

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