Because the various issues concerning SSL Certificates can be very confusing to an administrator unfamiliar with the subject, effort has been made to simplify these issues as much as possible, while still maintaining a flexible environment for the more experienced administrator. Even so, the goals of this software are not to educate the user about the usage of SSL Certificates or the OpenSSL Toolkit. A moderate understanding of SSL Certificates is expected of anyone using this software. Version 0.9.6 or later is required.
Entity can support many different languages, toolsets and libraries.
Read the usage section below. Effort has been made to keep the functionality of the GUI as intuitive as possible to the administrator moderately familiar with SSL Certificate generation and management. It should also be noted that key management should only be performed on 'secure' hosts, ideally ones not connected to any network and whose physical locations are secure. Due to the sensitive nature of SSL private keys, particularly Certificate Authority private keys, proper precautions should be taken to ensure the security of these keys. Unfortunately, if a private key is encrypted, it is impossible to tell with certainty which certificate this key corresponds to.