About This Guide

This guide is part of the information and support provided by Utimaco. Additional documentation produced to support your Utimaco SecurityServer product can be found in the document directory of the Utimaco SecurityServer product bundle.

All Utimaco SecurityServer product documentation is available from Utimaco’s website at https://utimaco.com/.

This guide provides an integration guide explaining how to integrate Utimaco SecurityServer Hardware Security Module (HSM) with Bind9. Utimaco HSM securely generates and stores the KSK and ZSK keys required by Bind9 to sign the zone files.

Target Audience

This guide is intended for administrators of Bind9 and of Utimaco HSMs.

Document Conventions

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Select Details and click on Properties button

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certreq.exe -new request.inf IISCertRequest.csr

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References and important terms

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Abbreviations

Abbreviation

Meaning

BIND

Berkeley Internet Name Domain

CSADM

CryptoServer Command-line Administration Tool

DNS

Domain Name System

DNSSEC

Domain Name System Security Extensions

DS

Delegation Signer

ECC

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HSM

Hardware Security Module

IP

Internet Protocol

KSK

Key-signing Key

LAN

Local Area Network

PCI-e

PCI Express Interface

PIN

Personal Identification number

PKCS#11

Public-Key Cryptography Standard #11

RHEL

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RSA

Rivest-Shamir-Adleman

SO

Security Officer

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

ZSK

Zone-signing Key

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier

TTL

Time to Live

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure

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