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Monday, December 18, 2006

Contents of a Digital Certificate

I was trying to study what all info a digital certificate contains.. I decided to look at the site I freqeuently visit for buying movie tickets - Sathyam Cinemas.

The Certificate shows it was issued by Verisign. It is issued to "tickets.sathyamcinemas.com. But the name of their site is "thecinema.in". So it gives some warnings to the user.



I went to look at the contents. It says in detail - Issuer, Issued to, Validity Period, Algorithm used etc etc. Also we can see that the "Public Key" of Sathyam Cinemas is send along with the Certificate.



Further Details:



The certificate chain shown here. Who is the signing authority of the certificate can be seen here



The digital certificate will contain the digital certificate. It is the encrypted hashed value of the message. It is encrypted using Issuing Authority's private key.


1 comment:

digital certificate said...

I wonder how powerful all these kind of encryptions are and if I really can trust them while signing digitally in my bank account for example

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