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Title:        Building Certificate Store
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Owner:        Gleb Dolgich
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Contributors: Xavier Leclercq, Gleb Dolgich
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Copyright (C) 2003 Symbian Limited. All rights reserved.
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Purpose
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This document describes how to build CACerts.dat (certificate store) and
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certclients.dat (certificate client applications) files. These files are stored
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on a device in c:\system\data\ directory. They are necessary for Software
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Install and SSL/TLS.
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Certificates and trusters
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Every certificate stored in CACerts.dat has a set of UIDs associated with it,
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each UID marking the certificate as good for a particular purpose (application).
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Currently the following applications/UIDs are defined:
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- SW Install (268452523, or 0x100042AB)--certificate is suitable for software
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  install (SIS files);
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- SW Install OCSP Signing (268478646, or 0x1000A8B6)--certificate is suitable
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  for OCSP checking (SIS files);
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- MIDlet Installation (270506792, or 0x101F9B28)--certificate is good for Java
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  MIDlet installation, which includes OCSP checking;
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- Server Authentication (268441661, or 0x1000183D)--certificate is suitable for
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  SSL/TLS server authentication.
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These UIDs are stored in certclients.dat file. Once certclients.dat is in
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c:\system\data on the device, the Certificates Control Panel applet allows
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manual assignment of applications to each certificate.
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Files needed
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The following files are needed to build a certificate store:
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- T_CERTSTORE.EXE test harness, which is located in security/certman/tcertstore;
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  build it from security/certman/group;
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- bldcertstore.txt: test script located in security/certman/tcertstore/scripts;
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  you can modify it depending on which certificates/applications you want
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  included in the store. This script is exported into device's
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  c:\tcertstore\scripts.
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The following certificates are used for running tests:
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- Symbiana.der "Identity ACS Root"--Symbian application signing certificate that
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  is provided for reference only and is not used by tests
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- Symbianb.der "Testing ACS Root"--Symbian application signing test certificate
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  that is provided for reference only and is not used by tests
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- cacert.crt "TestCA"--SSL server CA certificate (self-signed)
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- thawtetest.crt "Thawte Root"--SW Install certificate
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- TOCSP-Root5-RSA.cer--SW Install and MIDlet Installation
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- TOCSP-Signing5-RSA.cer--OCSP Signing
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These certificates are copied into c:\tappinst\certs\ directory on the device.
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Building the store
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To build a certificate store, perform the following steps:
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1. Build the T_CERTSTORE test harness and export test files for appinst and
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   certman.
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2. Go to the appropriate build directory (udeb or urel) and run the following
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   command:
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   t_certstore c:\tcertstore\scripts\bldcertstore.txt c:\bldcertstore.log
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   This will build c:\system\data\cacerts.dat and c:\system\data\certclients.dat
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   with test certificates. If you need to add your own certificates, modify the
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   bldcertstore.txt script accordingly.  The ‘console’ option is necessary to ensure 
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   the tool can operate independently of the UI environment.