Questions tagged [certificate]
An electronic document used in cryptography.
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Security of the cerfiticates in the client application in a gRPC service
I have a gRPC service and I was thikning about the security aspects in the client side.
I have only one certificate (public and private certificates) for the client, that it is uses for all my clients,...
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Where to include a pfx certificate in a http request?
I would like to understand what happens in a request which includes a .pfx certificate to authenticate to client to the server. I know how to implement this in python or use it in postman, but I don't ...
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What will happen if I don't purchase a signed SSL certificate for my website?
I don't use SSL on my website currently. It's a small hobby site with no online store or anything of that nature that would need it. I've read that Google Chrome will stop loading such sites sometime ...
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Is there a best practice for storing certificates (e.g. x509), which include private keys, used in unit tests?
In a software library, I wrote, large parts of the code use x509 certificates for various puprposes like signing documents digitally.
Is there a best practice for storing test certificates used for ...
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Secure Admin-pages-only login without HTTPS
I'm adding admin dashboard to a website that doesn't use HTTPS. For now only that (admin) section requires user authentication.
If I use encrypted + salted password and check the client IP address to ...
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What is the best practice(-s) for managing many certificates?
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In our system there are a lot of certificates. Some of them are used to secure HTTPS endpoints. Many more of them are used as a means of authenticating our system to an external system (we ...
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How can I obtain a CA certificate for my application if I do not own a business/company?
I have developed an application which I intend to sell. I set up a website with information and download links, advertising, payments, everything is ready to go - except the digital signature. I want ...
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iOS Push Notifications Certificate Sync Cert to Servers
I'm not sure if this is the correct form to be posting this on Stack Exchange. If not I apologize in advance and hope someone can point me in the right direction of where to post.
I have a AWS Load ...
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Is is ok to sign SSL by an authority while developing a web application?
I am currently working on a web application page, my boss sees the changes online while i still make the changes, sometimes the page is shown to some clients in order to get feedback while it's still ...
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DataStore for Certificates and Keys
I am developing a web application. It is a multitenant(SAAS) application. My application involves getting signed certificates from users. Obviously each certificate would be having a separate CSR and ...
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Pem certificate in mobile app
I am developing a cross platform app that can handle payments, the online payment service issued a certificate for my use, thus I have a .pem certificate and within it there is 2 actual certificates ...
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Mutual Authentication in JSON or AJAX only?
AFAIK we must install the client-certificate into the users browser to connect with https-sites using server-certificates to have a mutual authentication.
What about AJAX and JSON, can we connect to ...
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Problem : Certificate for multi Clients of WCF
If My WCF service have big number of clients through the
Internet,then whether should all of them share the same Client
Certificate(X509)?
And if their certificates should be unique , what should I do ...
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X509 certificate question on WCF
My condition:
A WCF service which is self-hosted and it's on a Win8 Machine.
Client is a WPF Program on another machine.
Then I follow the article on Codeproject about how to set X509 certificate ...
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How effective are code signing certificates when it comes to customer behavior or acceptance? [closed]
Whenever a potential customer downloads a copy of my software they get the "Unknown Publisher" warning message. I understand that if I purchase a code signing certificate this message goes away and ...
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Login to a Web App using PKI Certs [duplicate]
I understand PKI reasonably well from a conceptual point of view - i.e. private keys/public keys - the math behind them, use of hash & encryption to sign a certificate, Digital Signing of ...
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Implementing Digitally signed data in a Web Application
I understand PKI well from a conceptual point of view - i.e. private keys/public keys - the math behind them, use of hash & encryption to sign a certificate, Digital Signing of Transactions or ...
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iOS App Signing and Certificates
In order to sign an application for the Apple App Store, we need to create a certificate by saving a certificate request file from keychain and then upload it to the Apple store.
I was wondering, ...
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Committing https certificates to Github...is there ever a good reason for this?
If a server certificate is published to Github, a la:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
is that necessarily a bad thing? Is there ever a legitimate reason to do this?
I ask because of a recent wave of ...
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Windows driver signing [closed]
My company is developing driver for our hardware. Now I need to sign my driver for 32 and 64 bit platforms.
Please tell, now I need to buy Authenticode certificate, right?
What CA to use?
DigiCert?
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Java solution for mutual authentication with smart card
I need to develop a Java solution for mutual authentication between Tomcat 6 (server) and SmartCard "IDGo 300" (client).
In order to do this I thought of the following scheme:
1.Tomcat (server) send ...
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Programming certificates [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are certifications worth it?
I'd be glad to hear your opinions on which programming certificates are the most widely recongnized in the industry and how useful are they ...
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Has anyone ever claimed a warranty on an SSL certificate? [closed]
SSL certificates often advertise varying amounts of warranties or guarantees, for example $500,000 or $1m.
My question is, in the history of SSL, has anyone ever actually successfully claimed one of ...
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How to get familiarized with certificate generation
I am supposed to work on web Services (using Apache CXF and Spring )
I was asked to get familiarized with certificate generation, as we will need to generate certificates going forward for the web ...
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