Chapter 4: Working with Certificates

Understanding certificates used to be something that many people avoided. For many facets of IT, you can avoid dealing with them. They were for the networking team, not anybody doing development or desktop support. However, times have changed, and a solid understanding of the common certificate types is quickly becoming an ability that anyone in support should possess. More and more, security has become focused on certificates and with the exponential increase in the amount of applications that are served via the web, understanding the certificates that protect these services is more important than ever.

Almost anyone who has set up a website has dealt with SSL certificates from a public Certification Authority ...

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