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Certificate Public Key Usage

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Jeff Muir

Public keys that reside inside certificates are only meant to be used for certain things. This is indicated by the Key Usage and Extended Key Usage extensions. The first stop is documentation from OpenSSL. Key usage supported names: digitalSignature nonRepudiation…

Digital Certificates (part 2 of 2)

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Jeff Muir

Part two continues on the topic of digital certificates. One of the keys is private and the other is public. Below are some useful examples and explanations from Novell: But, how does this work on the Internet for transactions?

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