Verifying that the Rational DOORS certificate keys are up to date

Security authorization requires up-to-date certificate keys. 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.
Important: Do not use the sample certificates for secure connections in production environments.

To use the certificates that come with Rational DOORS:

Procedure

To validate that the evaluation certificates are not expired, use the GSKit function:

  1. To set the path, enter the path command for your environment: PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\gsk8\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\gsk8\lib
  2. To identify the client certificate expiration, enter 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, enter this command: gsk8capicmd -cert -list -db "C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Rational\DOORS\9.version\certdb\server_authentication.kdb" -pw ser123 -expiry
Related concepts:
Smart cards and TLS certificates

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