Criteria for Common Name of Certificate Authority and how it affects SSL certificates

It is not clear to me how the Common Name affects a certificate authority and the certificates that are ultimately created. For example, I have this simple script that creates some files for a certificate authority auto-generated/ca.* and… Continue reading Criteria for Common Name of Certificate Authority and how it affects SSL certificates

Other benefits of creating my certificate authority aside from the firefox issue and centralized management of certificates?

I’ve been trying to read more about self-signed SSL certificates versus creating my own certificate authority to sign SSL certificates. I am still not completely clear on this.
I’ll start by explaining my use case: I have customers that … Continue reading Other benefits of creating my certificate authority aside from the firefox issue and centralized management of certificates?

Why openssl verify does not work for the certificate chain of a correctly configured site?

I download its certificates. To do that, I used the openssl debug output of the command
openssl s_client -connect security.stackexchange.com:443 -servername security.stackexchange.com -showcerts -debug </dev/null 2>&1|tee out

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