A policy module to tame them all: Introducing the TameMyCerts Policy Module for the Microsoft Certification Authority.

As a Certification Authority operator, you are (among other things) responsible for the identification of the enrollees and the confirmation of the requested identities. The fact that this task is carried out conscientiously and without error is the central pillar of the trust placed in the certification body. Well-known companies are already failed in this task, even had to file for insolvency as a result of misrepresentations and / or were taken over by the big players in the market sensitive punished.

In many cases, we as (Microsoft) PKI operators in companies (regardless of the associated quality) are able to delegate our task of uniquely identifying an applicant to the Active Directory. In many cases, however, we unfortunately also have to instruct our certification authority(ies) to simply issue everything that is requested.

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The partition of the Hardware Security Module (HSM) runs full

Assume the following scenario:

  • A Certification Authority uses a Hardware Security Module (HSM).
  • The partition of the hardware security module fills up with more and more keys over the lifetime of the certificate authority.
  • At SafeNet hardware security modules, this can even cause the partition to fill up. As a result, the events 86 and 88 logged by the Certification Authority.
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