Verifying the Rational DOORS certificate keys are up to date

Security authorization requires the certificate keys are up to date. You can verify the expiration date of the evaluation certificates that are installed with Rational® DOORS®.

About this task

Rational DOORS provides a set of evaluation certificates that you can use to validate secure connections for your security model.
Note: Do not use these sample certificates for secure connections in production environments.

To use the certificates that come with Rational DOORS:

Procedure

Use the GSKit function to validate the evaluation certificates are not expired:

  1. To set the path, run the path command for your: PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\gsk8\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\gsk8\lib
  2. To identify the client certificate expiration, run this command gsk8capicmd -cert -list -db "C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.version\certdb\client_authentication.kdb" -pw cli123 -expiry
  3. To identify the server certificate expiration, run this command: gsk8capicmd -cert -list -db "C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.version\certdb\server_authentication.kdb" -pw ser123 -expiry

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