In this post we will discuss being a Certificate Authority, mainly to help us better understand the whole certificate concept. This is a high level view, so while we will talk about the whats needed, there will be no step by step tutorial. This is more of a concept discussion. (more…)
When dealing with computer security, there is something that is known as a Chain of Trust. In principle, this Chain of Trust is suppose to ensure the integrity of our systems. This chain of trust involves signed certificates. I am sure most of you have gotten that browser warning about untrusted certificates. So it behooves us to understand something about these certificates. (more…)