Sentry CA is a full-featured certificate authority (CA) solution for large enterprises and public CAs. It is designed to maintain performance when scaled, supporting massive demand for signing operations, PKI queries, and large-scale certificate storage and management. Sentry CA is designed for fault tolerance, load balancing, and component redundancy. It simultaneously supports PKI over multiple protocol interfaces such as LDAP, SSL-LDAP, HTTP, and HTTPS. Sentry CA is standards-based and interoperates with a wide variety of other PKI-aware products out of the box. Sentry CA provides an integrated directory and seamlessly publishes certificates to any other standards-based directory.

Sentry CA has an open and modular architecture. It can be dropped into an organization's current network infrastructure and is designed to seamlessly interoperate with standard enterprise software. Sentry CA works with standard applications such as Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Lotus Domino, Microsoft IIS, Netscape Enterprise Server and Worldtalk Worldsecure. Sentry CA does not require proprietary upgrades or plug-ins andtherefore prevents the need for expensive retrofitting of desktop applications. Sentry CA also works with PKCS #11compliant smartcards and tokens and with Ipsec compliant firewalls and VPNs. Sentry CA interoperates with all other PKIX compliant public key infrastructures and enables open network PKI.

1. It simultaneously supports PKI over multiple protocol interfaces such as LDAP, SSL-LDAP, HTTP, and HTTPS.
2. It is designed to maintain performance when scaled, supporting massive demand for signing operations, PKI queries, and large-scale certificate storage and management.
3. Sentry CA is designed for fault tolerance, load balancing, and component redundancy.
4. Sentry CA is standards-based and interoperates with a wide variety of other PKI-aware products out of the box.