[GemStone-Smalltalk] Understanding secure backups

[Iwan Vosloo]

Hi there.

I am trying to figure out how to use GemStone secure backups on GemStone 
64Bit 3.4.1 on Linux.

The documentation talks of private and public keys - things I understand 
and know how to generate using openssl.

However, what confuses me is the contents of the directory 
$GEMSTONE/examples/openssl

Specifically, there are scripts in there related to being a certificate 
authority, and there is a CA certificate.

I see no mention of certificates and being a CA in documentation, so I 
wondered what it is used for and how?

Regards
Iwan


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