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I’m reading this and it has the below (excerpt).
# Certificate Authority Section
[ ca ]
default_ca = CA_default # The default CA section
# Default CA configuration to sign a Certificate (Public Key)
[ CA_def… Continue reading Are sections in openssl config file case sensitive?
From GoDaddy’s Renewing my SSL Certificate docs (emphasis mine):
If you’re using a Domain Validation (DV) certificate with the primary domain for your account, and you’ve set the certificate to auto-renew, no further action is needed on y… Continue reading How does automatic SSL certificate renewal work without having access to the private key?
Here is the scenario:
Server A is an authentic server (A.com).
Server F is a fake server (F.com) that also has a valid cert for
F.com has a copy of A.com certificate to it (to fake as A.com).
Client C is trying to connect to A.com via a r… Continue reading Detect invalid cert Android client if URL being redirected to a fake server
Last week I received a notification pop-up on my galaxy s10 phone stating a certificate authority has been installed on this device. There was no information as to what authority was installed and none of the authorities listed in my phone… Continue reading Unexpected certificate authority installation on an android
I’m a noob in PKI stuff. But if we were to subscribe to a PKI cloud service, could we move our root CA and other PKI stuff to our own PKI infrastructure once I’m ready to manage it ourselves?
Continue reading Can we move a PKI-as-a-service to own managed PKI server? [closed]
Alice and Bob have TLS certificate authorities. My device trusts Alice’s CA, and connects to servers that present a certificate rooted at Alice’s CA. It does not explicitly trust Bob’s CA, or the servers that use his certificates.
Alice tr… Continue reading Can you sign a TLS root certificate that already exists? [duplicate]
This freeCodeCamp article recommends
setting up a CA server,
installing the CA root certificate file into the system’s trust store, and
generating a leaf certificate for the project’s web server.
Based on my understanding of the TLS hand… Continue reading Is setting up a CA server necessary when all I want is to test HTTPS for a web project on localhost?
I have several MongoDB’s where I use x.509 Certificates to Authenticate Clients
Let’s say I create certificate and user for admin:
subject: CN=admin
issuer: CN=MongoDB Issuing CA
-> db.createUser({user: "CN=admin"})
When I p… Continue reading Best practice of x.509 client certificates accross multiple systems
My understanding is that for each SSL certificate, there is a private and public key that web browsers use to confirm that it is a valid certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority.
How does the Certificate Authority decide which… Continue reading How do certificate authorities choose which private/public keys to use to encrypt each SSL certificate so a browser can know that they’re legit? [duplicate]
I have read many posts related to the intermediate CA certificates and I do hope my question is not a duplication.
Where do TLS clients fetch intermediate CA certificates from?
In SSL server handshake, does server also send CA certificate
… Continue reading How do TLS clients validate intermediate CA certificates?