Digital Certificates Flashcards
This type of certificate allows all of the subdomains to use the same public key certificate, and displayed as valid.
Wildcard Certificates
This type of certificate specifies what additional domains and IP addresses are going to be supported.
Subject Alternate Name (SAN) field
This type of certificate only requires the serve to be validated.
Single-sided Certificate
This type of certificate requires both the serve and user to be validated.
Dual-sided Certificate
This type of certificate is signed by the same entity whose identity it certifies.
Self-signed Certificate
This type of certificate is issued and signed by a Trusted Authority.
Third-Party Certificate
This type of certificate validates each certificate using the concept chain of trust.
Root of Trust
This certificate is usually purchase from a registration authority; it’s usually a trusted third party issuing digital certificates.
Certificate Authority
Who requests identifying information from the user and forwards that certificate request up to the CA to create the digital certificate?
Registration Authority
What is a block of encoded text that contains information about the entity regarding the certificate?
Certificate Signing Request
What do you call a full list of certificates revoked by the CA?
Certificate Revocation List
What allows someone to determine the revocation status of any digital certificate using its serial number?
OCSP
What allows a certificate holder to get OCSP record from the server at a regular interval?
OCSP Stapling
What allows an HTTPS website to resist impersonation attacks from users who are trying to present fraudulent certificates?
Public Key Pinning
What occurs when a secure copy of a user’s private key is being held?
Key Escrow
