CZERTAINLY X509 Compliance Provider

This repository is part of the commercial open-source project CZERTAINLY, but the connector is available under subscription. You can find more information about the project at CZERTAINLY repository, including the contribution guide.

X509 Compliance Connector is the implementation of the following Function Groups and Kinds:

Function Group	Kind
Compliance Provider	x509

X509 Compliance Provider is the implementation of compliance check and management for x509 certificates that are managed by CZERTAINLY. This Connector performs compliance check for the certificates of type x509. List of items to be considered to determine the compliance of a certificate is administrated by the rules and groups.

Rules

Rules in the X509 Compliance Provider describes the condition that should be applied to the certificate for determination of the Compliance Status. Rules are the individual objects that contribute to the overall compliance status of the certificate

Groups

Groups are the logical grouping of the rules organized by some baseline similarities. A group may contain two or more rules and when a compliance profile is added with the group, all the rules in the group will be applied to the certificate compliance determination

X509 Compliance Provider allows you to perform the following operations:

• Check compliance of x509 Certificate

Database requirements

This Connector does not require any database as it does not persist any data.

Short Process Description

Compliance of the certificate is calculated by the use of Compliance Profiles. Compliance Profiles are the entities that holds the list of rules and groups to be considered for the compliance calculation. These objects holds rules and groups from different Connectors, apply them accordingly and compute the status based on the rule validations.

X509 Compliance Provider consumes ZLint for some rules and groups. To know more about ZLint, refer to ZLint

To know more about the Core, refer to CZERTAINLY Core

Interfaces

X509 Compliance Connector implements Compliance Provider interfaces. To learn more about the interfaces and end points, refer to the CZERTAINLY Interfaces.

For more information, please refer to the CZERTAINLY documentation.

Docker container

X509 Compliance Connector is provided as a Docker container. Use the docker.io/czertainly/czertainly-x509-compliance-provider:tagname to pull the required image from the repository. It can be configured using the following environment variables:

Variable	Description	Required	Default value
SERVER_PORT	Port where the service is exposed		8080
LOG_LEVEL	Logging level for the service		INFO