openssl.. web based certificate management

[Florian Rommel <frommel () gmail com>]

Hi list,
I have been googling for a while now and I haven't found an answer to  
this so I am writing this here, sorry if it is completely off-topic.

As some of you have read I am writing a rather long(ish) paper/ 
tutorial/intro/guide to Certificate management for small  
organizations (here is the brief: http://blog.2blocksaway.com/ 
2006/11/02/the-openssl-for-everything-project-brief/  ). Which  
basically guides the reader thru the simple steps of building a CA  
and how to implement certificates into the various applications etc.  
etc. etc. (btw, whoever wants to help writing or shoot me pointers to  
the non and covered subjects already, please I like constructive  
criticism..) . Anyway, I have the 4 first chapters done and now come  
to the streamlining the process part. Here is the problem I would  
like to introduce and help the user/reader to get a web-based  
certificate management ready, which should run on apache and should  
be free (OSS).  I have checked phpki but a) their documentation is,  
well, bad (and i am being nice) and somehow it gives the impression  
that it is meant for email certificates only.

My question, does anyone know any other free (OSS) project or  
software of the kind. Or do you have a "home" made package? If so can  
you give me some pointers? I wouldn't mind writing an application for  
this purpose in php and making it publicly (OSS) available, however I  
am a bit in the dark as to how to get php to talk to openssl back- 
end, SECURELY...

Anyway, any help will be really appreciated and I will make all my  
findings available, including the paper as it progresses and when it  
is done.

Thanks a lot already

//Flosse
http://blog.2blocksaway.com

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