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Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals

You're reading from   Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals Learn how you can leverage encryption to better secure your organization's data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644352
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Securing Our Data
2. Chapter 1: Protecting Data in Motion or at Rest FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Evolution of Ciphers 4. Chapter 3: Evaluating Network Attacks 5. Section 2: Understanding Cryptographic Techniques
6. Chapter 4: Introducing Symmetric Encryption 7. Chapter 5: Dissecting Asymmetric Encryption 8. Chapter 6: Examining Hash Algorithms 9. Section 3: Applying Cryptography in Today's World
10. Chapter 7: Adhering to Standards 11. Chapter 8: Using a Public Key Infrastructure 12. Chapter 9: Exploring IPsec and TLS 13. Chapter 10: Protecting Cryptographic Techniques 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Examining a certificate

The foundation of a PKI is the contents of an X.509 certificate. X.509 is the format a CA uses to provide assurance that a public key belongs to an entity contained within a certificate.

In this section, we'll take a high-level look at a certificate and then see what's involved in the X.509 standard. Then, we'll see the different ways a certificate can be validated and compare the many ways one can be used today.

Let's start with taking a high-level look at a certificate.

Viewing a certificate

When you are on a secure site, you will see a lock. When selected, the dialog box will drop down and assure you that the site is secure, as shown here using Mozilla:

Figure 8.15 – Google secure connection

Figure 8.15 – Google secure connection

While in the Mozilla browser, if you select the arrow to the right of the Connection secure notification, you can expand the information. You can then select more information (found at the bottom of...

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