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9. Certificate Management Protocols

Lawrence E. Hughes1  
(1)
Frisco, TX, USA
 
Years ago, the primary way to obtain a certificate from a Certification Authority was via a web browser. It involved the following steps:

  • You surfed to a special web page at the CA, filled in information for your SubjectDN (name, email, organization, city, state, and country), and clicked submit.

  • Your browser then created an asymmetric key pair the public key and built a PKCS #10 Certificate-Signing Request from the public key and SubjectDN and then submitted it to the CA (along with payment ...

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