HOWTOs, Whitepapers and Articles

Producing pertinent articles and whitepapers and useful HOWTOs is one of the ways through which Carillon's experts strive to stay at the leading edge of the Identity and Access Management field and promote its approaches and solutions.

Tutorials and Fingerpuppets

• For a general or preliminary introduction please see our introductory documents section
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HOWTOs Practical, step-by-step descriptions of how to tackle a specific issue; articles and whitepapers explore specific PKI and Federated Identity Management topics, and are suitable for both executive and technical audiences. How to Set Up an OpenSSL TEST CA for Interoperability Testing with CertiPath (PDF) How to Set Up a Microsoft TEST CA for Interoperability Testing with CertiPath (PDF)

About our Software

Here are some documents providing use-cases, instructions, and factors to consider, related to some of our software products.

• When deploying a PKI-based Secure Email solution, it is necessary to provide Certificate Discovery infrastructure, such as the Carillon LDAP Proxy, so that a sender can find a target recipient's certificate in order to encrypt and send the mail. This document describes architecture decisions related to implementing such a system.
  • Certificate Discovery Scenarios (PDF)
• Pathfinder is our Path Validation and Discovery (PDVal) tool for verification of X.509 certificates. This document describes how to set up and use Pathfinder.
  • Pathfinder Care and Feeding (PDF)