What is diffrence between enrolling and registering a certificate in Hyperledger fabric CA

Question

What exactly is difference between enrolling and registering a certificate in Hyperledger Fabric CA. I am new to cryptography and i am really confused about the working of F

Answer 1

Registering identity means adding its details in Fabric CA.

Enrolling means process when registered identity connects to CA and sends Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to it. CA checks if the identity is registered and performs some other validations, if checks are successful then it returns signed certificate to the identity. Since the certificate is signed by CA trusted by blockchain network, the identity has now means to interact with the network using this certificate.

So, to make the identity being able to interact with the network it must pass two steps in this particular sequence:

1. Be registered on CA
2. Be enrolled

Admin is preregistered in CA using when it is started

fabric-ca-server start -b admin:adminpw

The details are here: https://hyperledger-fabric-ca.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.4/users-guide.html

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