Re-Configuring LDAP CDP on Enterprise Root CA



Hi,
I'm deploying an enterprise root CA and want to re-confgure the LDAP
CDP container to not expose the CA's hostname, i.e. I replace the %%2
parameter with the %%7 parameter in the script used to reconfigure the
CA, so that the "CDP container name" is the same as the CA name.
However, I have observed problems with this:

A) I cannot control the default CDP the CA uses during installation,
therefore I automatically get a CDP container which reflects the CA
hostname.

B) If I do the reconfigure script immediately after deployment, the CA
cannot publish to the "%%7" container 'cus it doesn't exist.

I'm currently getting around these problems by doing the following:
1. Manually create the required CDP container before I do the CA
install, I use a certutil -dspublish to do this with a "fake CRL",
then throw away the CRL which is published

2. I install the CA and then run the reconfigure script and publish a
fresh CRL

3. I then have to delete the default "%%2" container and CRL which is
created by the CA install routine.

I'm not saying this is particularly hard, but in the context of a CA
ceremony it is not very elegant. Am I missing something, is there an
easier way to do this?

Hopefully, Chipeater

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