Lecture 24: E-Commerce #4 - Advanced Topics

Certificate Example

It's easy to find out about the certificates sent by a server: connect to a secure site (see later), and the "document info" option under the View menu. For example:

Security:       This is a secure document that uses a medium-grade encryption
                key suited for U.S. export (RC4-40, 128 bit with 40 secret).
Certificate:    This Certificate belongs to:
                certs.netscape.com
                Netscape Communications Corp.
                501 E. Middlefield Rd., Mountain View, California, US

                        This Certificate was issued by:
                        Secure Server Certification Authority
                        RSA Data Security, Inc.
                        US
                
     Serial Number: 0A:03:D9:06:5E:A5:E7:F0:F2:48:E2:EA:F4:7D:BC:CA
                This Certificate is valid from Sun May 23, 1999 to Tue
                May 23, 2000
                Certificate Fingerprint:
                83:B3:5D:50:73:21:C7:D9:E0:0D:AC:F1:42:31:68:B1

previous | start | next