why CA use private key to sign a digital certificate? What is the logic behind sign a digital certificate with CA private key?

In general(PKI), encryption happens with public key and decryption happens with private key. But, how Certificate Authority sign a digital certificate with private key? How this can be validated using public key in browser? What is the log… Continue reading why CA use private key to sign a digital certificate? What is the logic behind sign a digital certificate with CA private key?

Does the entire certificate chain need to be signed with the agreed upon cipher under TLS?

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I’m using OpenSSL for my client, and noticed that when testing it against Bad ssl’s sha1-intermediate test, it accepts it although the agreed upon cipher is TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0xc02f). I had to set the … Continue reading Does the entire certificate chain need to be signed with the agreed upon cipher under TLS?