Questions tagged [certificates]
A certificate consists of a public key and information about the owner (e. g. the name of a person or server).
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Encryption for intranet site?
I am developing a web application which will be downloaded, installed and used by my customers on their intranet. The data in the application is confidential, so all requests and responses need to be ...
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What is the difference of having to use a ca.crt to verify a signed file vs the .crt used to sign it?
This seemed like the most appropriate place to ask this question so here it goes:
I used to run a process that automatically generated a shim.key and ...
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Revoke a GPG key using previously generated revoke certificate after renewd (change expiration date)
I have few sub-questions
Do secret keys get expired, or just the public key gets expired?
Do I have to back up the master sec key each time I renew it?
For an ...
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Do people sign my subkey?
So, I've generated my GPG key pair. Created a subkey for signing and a subkey for encryption. Exported the whole thing, removed my master key pair to a secure place, re-imported only the subkeys. Now, ...
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Best model for client software encryption / decryption
I would like to develop a small solution (c#) that must secure data exchange with an untrusted server.
The model is that this software will run on a Windows client then Encrypt data before pushing it ...
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Understanding hybrid cryptography's concepts: signing and CA
After learning about symmetric encryption, public-key encryption, one-way hash, digital signature and digital certificate, I was tasked to think of an imaginary hybrid cryptosystem. I was thinking ...
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Reusing PGP key when generating SSL Certificate Authority?
Does it make sense to reuse some of the keys from my PGP (GnuPG, GPG) key block when generating my own SSL Certificate Authority (a toy one for myself and a few web services of mine)?
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Any (proposed) internet standard (RFC) for trusted hosting of signed documents?
There's a problem with digitally signed documents - in particular that any print-out of them will be only a copy, not an original (by print-out I mean the print-out of the human readable form of the ...
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Different encryption standards and how they relate to auth and algorithms
The main confusion I have is around the different PKCS and relation with SSL (TLS). I have done a lot of research and have found bits and pieces but not necessarily how these relate, so let me explain ...
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How to compute certificates using Diffie-Hellman key exchange with certificates and Elgamal signature scheme
We consider the DiffieāHellman key exchange scheme with certificates. We have a system with the three users Alice, Bob and Charley. The DiffieāHellman algorithm uses p = 61 and Ī± = 18. The three ...
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Clarification on the TLS verification process
I am reading this article in my attempt to understand how the TLS verification and chain of trust works. In the piece I come across a section that I am not sure I understand.
In the simplified ...
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What exactly is Let's encrypts chain.pem file?
While trying to understand the use or meaning of the fullchain.pem file created by let's encrypt I stumbled upon this post in which ...
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What are the contents of a certificate and how can I view it?
I understand on a conceptual level that a certificate is nothing more than just a verified public key. The next question I have, is how exactly do I see the contents of a certificate? Apart from the ...
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CMS encryption application using Windows system certificate store
Hy!
I'm looking for an application, which can make cms encryption/decryption, but with the use of the windows certificate store.
I already found out, that openssl can't do it out of the box (just by ...
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How is the identitiy of a subject in a Public Key Certificate verified by the Certificate Authority (CA)?
A general digital certificate issued by a CA might contain information about the individual/organization to whom the certificate belongs. As an example, consider this sample scenario:
This PKC ...
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What happens when a root CA has its private key compromised?
What happens when a root CA has its private key compromised? Then all children in the tree are compromised too? And then all certificates are compromised? What needs to happen then?
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PKCS12 password of container and private key
As I understand pkcs12 defines a container structure that can hold both a certificate and one or more private keys.
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Allowed key types in an SSL certificate
What are the valid key types which can get signed (or generated and signed) by a CA to constitute an SSL certificate?
For the keys used in TLS, the key types I have seen are RSA and EC. Anything else?
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Where can I read about DER certificate structure - fields and its registered values?
Where is an official documentation for ASN1 structure and values of x509 certs?
Using OpenSSL command like openssl asn1parse -in server.der -inform DER I can see ...
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data transferred when certificates are used
I tried to find some information about how certificates work on a technical level but wasn't really able to find something that answered all my questions.
Can one explain which data is transferred ...
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How to prove document ownership at a specific time [duplicate]
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Given any piece of data, I could sign it with public key and made available online. This proves I am in possession of given data, but it doesn't tell I am the creator. The only possibility (I'...
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Include TSA Certificate in Timestamp Request
I'm currently working on Timestamping and stumbled upon a parameter fRequestCerts/requestSignerCertificates/certReq that according to the documentation (1, 2) tells a TSA to include the certificate ...
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Smallest possible certificate for IoT device
I'm developing an IoT system that uses small nodes connected through RF. This allows messages under 250 bytes long. You can check it at https://github.com/gmag11/EnigmaIOT.
All messages are encrypted ...
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openSSL created CSR signature size of 73 bytes but should't it be 70 bytes
after creating CSR using openSSL with secp256r1 curve
inspecting the file using openssl asn1parse -i -in ecTest.csr
the size of ...
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What's the meaning of cached certificate revocation list and online certificate revocation list in X509RevocationMode Enum?
In this article, there are cached certificate revocation list and online certificate revocation list terms used.
I tried to find ...
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RSASSA-PSS in TLS 1.2
I know it is possible to use RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 with client certificates in TLS 1.3.
But what about the other way around: using RSASSA-PSS with client certificates in TLS 1.2?
Is it possible to use ...
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X509 certificate
I am studying the X509 certificate structure and here is an OpenSSL configuration file for generating the certificate. ("sth" just mean the actual string is removed)
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Difference Between PEM vs P12 vs CRT vs JKS vs keystore vs PKCS vs x509 certificates [duplicate]
Sorry noob here. I am so much confused about lot of files used client authentication certificates. Can anyone guide me on the difference between PEM vs P12 vs CRT vs JKS vs Keystore vs PKCS vs x509 ...
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Detecting revoked keys long after a document is signed
Scenario: A document is signed with a compromised private key, with a long-term time stamp. The normal expiration date of the key pair is D. The rightful owner of the key pair discovers the compromise ...
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Manually creating a GPG Public Key
I want to manually create a GPG public key that can be imported into GPG, i.e. I want to create a file with a Public-Key Packet, a User ID Packet and a Signature Packet (for an example see here). I ...
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Generate version 3 x509 certificate from version 1 CA
Please do forgive me for my naivety. I have inherited a legacy system wherein the CA which signs the certificate is of version 1. Is it possible to generate a x509 version 3 certificate which is ...
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What if the CSR is intercepted in transit while sending it to CA?
I was studying PKI the other day and I had a serious thinking about the following question.
What is CSR? - It is a block of encoded text that is given to the CA when applying for an SSL certificate ...
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Digital signature from hashing encrypted webpage
I'm studying for the Security+ exam with the help of Total Seminars' Udemy course and in one video they claim that a digital signature is generated by encrypting a message with the sender's private ...
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What information is signed by a Certification Authority?
What data does a CA sign?
I know that in a certificate there is plenty of information such a the serial number of the certificate itself, the X.509 version number, the user public key, the asymmetric ...
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is it possible to achieve authenticated key agreement without using PKI or pre-shared secret?
After reading different techniques to achieve authenticated key-agreement (X3DH, HMQV, Asynchronous Ratcheting tree, An efficient protocol for authenticated key agreement, I understood that all these ...
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OpenSSL - What Data Is Used To Create A Certificate's Digital Signature?
I am coming up-to-speed on OpenSSL certificates. In all of my research I see where "data" is hashed to create a hash value that is used as the basis for a certificate's digital signature. This hash ...
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Extract Certificates from Package File on Mac
I would like to manually verify the certificate chain on a package from my MacOS Catalina. I know that you can use the codesign --extract-certificates to extract certificates from applications, but I ...
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How message digest hash is used in RSA digital certificate verification
This is how I understand digital signature verification to work in general:
Plaintext gets run through a hashing mechanism to make a message digest (IBM's terminology, there appear to be plenty of ...
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Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange with Authentication: Man-in-the-Middle query
I have been reading up on MiTM attacks, and the prevention of them using public key certificates. Recently I learnt about Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange with Authentication, and how it uses signed ...
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Review: peer-to-peer encrypted communication
I'd like to ask you to review security of the following communication scheme:
network is strictly P2P, based on DHT (peer discovery)
root user can create a virtual private network (network private ...
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Is a Qualified Digital Certificate backward compatible with existing certificate code?
I'm trying to determine if our digital signature generation code will work without change using a European Qualified Digital Certificate in place of the RSA signing certificate that we normally use.
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Sorted merkle tree versus rsa accumulator
When compared to sorted merkle tree and rsa accumulator, which one is the best? Rsa accumulator has constant proof and it adds/deletes at constant cost. What is the verification cost for rsa ...
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Rsa accumulator verification cost gor nonmembership testing
What is the verification cost of rsa accumulator gor non-membership testing. Is it O(N) or O(1). Can somebody explain it to me?
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Merkle tree verification cost calculation
I am trying to understand how to calculate verification cost of sorted merkle tree in case of exclusion proof. For example 5 revoked certificate are kept in merkle tree. How can i calculate storage ...
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Rsa accumulator storage size
Rsa accumulator's storage complexity is known as O(1). However, how can i calculate size of accumulator value in byte?
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certificate revocation list file size
Crl files are growing linearly. I wonder with 10 revoked certificate, what is the storage size of crl file and so on. For every revoke certificate, how much increase the size of the crl?
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X.509 ECDSA signature field in DER format includes '00' between bit string and sequence of r and s
I created a X.509 certificate with ECDSAwithSHA256(OID=1.2.840.10045.4.3.2) by openssl.
ECC parameter is secp256r1.
Following is the signatureAlgorithm and signatureValue.
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Implementing ESignature and digital certificate
I'm having some issue understanding the mechanism of electronic signature and how implementing it
Here what I understood, correct me if I'm wrong:
(Client is here an android or ios device. Server ...
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Enforce weak RSA in TLS
I'm going to give a small talk on the mathematical background of RSA. My audience will consist mostly of software engineers and to make the mathematical stuff tangible, I wanted to demonstrate how to ...
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Keeping a backup of asymmetric keys with the help of a certificate authority without losing the privacy
First I'll explain the problem, then I will also give a solution(it might be wrong) I've found for it, you let me know what you think about this solution and whether you have a better one.
Assume a ...
