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Country
Country of origin |
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Certificate Authority
The authority that is vouching for this certificate. Many CAs are not trusted root authorities, but are connected to them by chain. |
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Common Name
The name as it appears in the subject of the certificate. Per SSL specification, the CN should match the requested host name. If a certificate does not match what you are connecting to (CN=www.abc.com, but request is was for abc.com), the client has the option of aborting the connection. Most modern-day browsers will prompt the user. |
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Certificate Revocation List
List of certificates that have been issued and signed by a CA, but have been revoked for one reason or another. It is entirely the responsibility of the client to verify that the certificate is not in the CRL. |
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| The path a certificate takes to be verified by a client to a root authority. |
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Distinguished Name
Consists of the following values together: C, S, L, O, OU, CN, email |
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| A file used by java to store the private key of a certificate, the certificate, and the CA certificates for the cert/key. |
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Locality
The city of origin. |
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Organization
Usually the company name who owns the certificate |
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Organizational Unit
Usually the division of a company which is responsible for the certificate. |
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Root Authority
One of a list of CA defined to be an unconditionally trusted CA. These CA certificates are usually pre-installed into modern day web browsers, SSL client distributions, etc |
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| A file used by java to store the certificates of anything that can be treated as a root authority. Note that not only root authorites are in these files - Adding a self signed CA certificate to the trust store will allow authentication of any certs that CA has signed. |
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| Used to identify the point of contact for this certificate |
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