Entrust PKI as a Service

basic

Entrust provides the following basic profiles for authorities.

Profile Authority type
basic-ca-root Root certificate authority
basic-ocsp Validation authority

See below a description of these profiles.


⚠ These profiles are not exposed nor configurable. External root CAs are not covered by these profiles.


Certificate fields

Entrust authority profiles set the following certificate fields.

Field basic-ca-root basic-ocsp
Issuer Self-signed Customer’s online root/issuing CA
Subject No constraint No constraint
Validity period Less than or equal to 20 years 30 days

Certificate critical extensions

Entrust authority profiles set the following certificate critical extensions.

Extension basic-ca-root basic-ocsp
Basic Constraints cA=True cA = False
Extended Key Usage Never present OCSP Signing
Key Usage digitalSignature, keyCertSign, cRLSign digitalSignature, keyCertSign, cRLSign

Certificate non-critical extensions

Entrust authority profiles set the following non-critical certificate extensions.

Extension basic-ca-root basic-ocsp
AIA Never present Always present
Authority Key Identifier Never present Matches the subjectKeyIdentifier of the signing certificate
CRL Distribution Points Never present (not applicable) Always present
OCSP Never present No check
Subject Key Identifier «The leftmost 160-bits of the SHA-256 hash of the value of the BIT STRING subjectPublicKey» as described in RFC 7093 section 2 «The leftmost 160-bits of the SHA-256 hash of the value of the BIT STRING subjectPublicKey» as described in RFC 7093 section 2