Public key certificate - also digital certificate or identity certificate. A document that contains information about a user's or machine's identity, matched up with its public key, and is validated and cryptographically signed by a certificate authority. Certificates are intended to provide a trustworthy way to distribute and determine the correct public key for a given user or machine.
Questions tagged [certificate]
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What's the quickest way on a Windows machine to look at the detail of a p12 certificate?
Given a P12 certificate file on Windows, what's the quickest way to see the details such as common name?
Say i have a file mycertificate.p12, ideally I'm looking for a command line tool that I can run against the file to show me the details and…
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What is this warning message all about?
Why is it so that every time when i start "FireFox", this message pops up:
advisordb.wmtransfer.com: 443 uses an
invalid security cetificate. The
certificate is not trusted because the
issuer certificate is not trusted.
(Error code:
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After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.11.4, I start seeing reports that certificates are invalid
I upgraded from Mac OS X 10.11.3 to 10.11.4 this week. After that, I found that, if I open some software e.g. Xcode simulator download page, or HMA client (a VPN Client), it reports some info: invalid certificates lie below:
"Could not download and…
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Get RSA private key and certificate from GlobalSign certificate
I can generate my own private key and certificate as follows:
openssl genrsa -out privatekey.pem 2048
openssl req -new -x509 -key privatekey.pem -out g4certificate.pem -days 1095
Copy+pasting the certificate/private key parts into a database and…
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Difference between certificate of a website and a SAML certificate?
A browser certificate is a signed document and with the public key of the CA, my user agent is able to validate it.
In the metadata file of SAML, there is also a certificate, but it just seems to be something else. What is it and what is it exactly…
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How does a certificate get verfied by client root certificate stored in the browser
Once the client receives certificate from the webserver. How the webserver public certificate is being verified by the root trusted certificate installed in the browser?
I still can't understand the chain of trust. Can someone explain these two in…
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How to get the organization name from a .p12 certificate?
I have a .p12 certificate and I need to find out the organization name of it. How to do that? (I'm using Windows 8.1)
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Creating Certification Authority for Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat
Can you please give me a hint on how to create CA to Digitally Sign MS Office documents (2007 or 2010) as well as Adobe Acrobat files.
I know that MS Office supports this. All you have to do is to use existing CA. However, we'd like to create our…
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Generate untrusted server p12 certificate with one click
To test some stuff I need to create a bunch of untrusted p12 certificates to be used by untrusted web-server. I read openssl documentation and tried to follow the instructions but the process is very complicated, aggravating and error prone. Is…
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Can I install a localized certificate authority in Windows XP?
We are a division of a much larger organization and this organization uses Novell domain authentication. The entire division uses Windows XP. We'd like to implement digital signing of our Office documents.
Is it possible to install a certificate…
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who/why were certiticates installed on my pc
I am looking at all the certificates installed on my computer. There must be at least 70 of them. Some of them are even in Spanish.
How can I:
Tell where they came from?
Are they legit?
Are they needed?
What are they used for?
I can see the…
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How to import certificate into truststore in Adobe Experience Manager
The peer site that AEM is trying to visit has a self signed certificate.
The question is how to import the self signed certificate into the AEM truststore.
Adobe has an article about this…
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How does a client use the Certificate Enrollment Web Service and Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service?
According to a the technet articles:
The Certificate Enrollment Web Service is an Active Directory
Certificate Services (AD CS) role service that enables users and
computers to perform certificate enrollment by using the HTTPS
protocol.…
Zouzou Ibba
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How to set attributes to private key on PKCS#12 (key usage)
I make a certificate X509 with library Bouncy Castle on Java. I need set a Key Attribute to private key.
PKCS7 Data
Shrouded Keybag: pbeWithSHA1And3-KeyTripleDES-CBC, Iteration 1024
Bag Attributes
friendlyName: ASDF
localKeyID: XX XX XX XX
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How to enable IE 10 to accept sha-1 ssl certificate?
I have a server certificate issued by a CA that uses sha-1. Chrome (latest) allowed me to access a server that imports the server cert but IE 10 didn't. Is there way that I could configure IE 10 to accept sha-1 ssl cert?
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