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Update docs for RA.

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Mariano Cano 2020-10-19 18:43:11 -07:00
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# Certificate Management Services
# Registration Authorities
This document describes how to use a certificate management service or CAS to
sign X.509 certificates requests.
This document describes how to use an external registration authority (RA), aka
certificate authority service (CAS) to sign X.509 certificates requests.
A CAS is a system that implements an API to sign certificate requests, the
difference between CAS and KMS is that the latter can sign any data, while CAS
is intended to sign only X.509 certificates.
`step-ca` defines an interface that can be implemented to support other
services, currently only CloudCAS and the default SoftCAS are implemented.
registration authorities, currently only CloudCAS and the default SoftCAS are
implemented.
The `CertificateAuthorityService` is defined in the package
`github.com/smallstep/certificates/cas/apiv1` and it is:
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--reusable-config "subordinate-server-tls-pathlen-0"
```
Not it's time to enable it in `step-ca` adding the new property `"cas"` must be added
to the `ca.json`.
Now it's time to enable it in `step-ca` by adding some new files in the
`"authority"` section of the `ca.json`.
```json
{
"cas": {
"authority": {
"type": "cloudCAS",
"credentialsFile": "/path/to/credentials.json",
"certificateAuthority": "projects/<name>/locations/<loc>/certificateAuthorities/<ca-name>"
"certificateAuthority": "projects/<name>/locations/<loc>/certificateAuthorities/<ca-name>",
}
}
```
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"type": "badger",
"dataSource": "/home/jane/.step/db",
},
"cas": {
"authority": {
"type": "cloudCAS",
"credentialsFile": "/home/jane/.step/credentials.json",
"certificateAuthority": "projects/smallstep-cas-test/locations/us-west1/certificateAuthorities/prod-intermediate-ca"
},
"authority": {
"certificateAuthority": "projects/smallstep-cas-test/locations/us-west1/certificateAuthorities/prod-intermediate-ca",
"provisioners": [
{
"type": "JWK",