On Friday 23 February 2007 15:32:54 Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
Bruno Costacurta schrieb:
Hello,
as a newbie, I have some assumptions / questions hereafter about OpenSSL
and certificates. Many thanks to correct / confirm me.
- a certificate is a public key with metadata
- metadata
Bruno Costacurta schrieb:
[...]
- serial information within the certificate is useless
If you are still talking of only the serial number you are correct. But
if you also know the issuing CA you can uniquely identify the
certificate. A CRL (Certificate Revocation List) for example
Hello,
as a newbie, I have some assumptions / questions hereafter about OpenSSL
and certificates. Many thanks to correct / confirm me.
- a certificate is a public key with metadata
- metadata contain mandatories (ie. subject and issuer) and optional
parameters
- there is no relation between
Bruno Costacurta schrieb:
Hello,
as a newbie, I have some assumptions / questions hereafter about OpenSSL
and certificates. Many thanks to correct / confirm me.
- a certificate is a public key with metadata
- metadata contain mandatories (ie. subject and issuer) and optional
parameters
-
