Hi

In the following sample certificate, there is a tun of information
before --BEGIN CERTIFICATE--.
Who is this for? Is it for a human reader to make sense of who/what
this certificate is certifying? If it is for a s/w program that uses
certificates, how is this information supposed to be used?

Thanks in advance.

--Satish

Certificate:
    Data:
        Version: 3 (0x2)
        Serial Number: 0 (0x0)
        Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
        Issuer: C=US, ST=NJ, O=CVLT, OU=dev, CN=****/emailaddress=*...@****.com
        Validity
            Not Before: May  1 01:07:24 2009 GMT
            Not After : Apr 30 01:07:24 2012 GMT
        Subject: C=US, ST=NJ, O=CVLT, OU=dev, CN=****/emailaddress=*...@****.com
        Subject Public Key Info:
            Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
            RSA Public Key: (1024 bit)
                Modulus (1024 bit):
                    00:a6:d9:82:67:67:8c:70:c7:4b:5f:d0:e3:24:2d:
                    ee:b3:79:ad:85:73:03:64:f2:64:fc:e6:a4:fd:b8:
                    43:23:b2:a4:15:31:d5:ed:01:0d:c7:14:8b:a7:c2:
                    e6:b5:3a:8a:df:99:de:b9:ac:d9:6f:c6:6d:91:bd:
                    43:d5:11:a5:bb:e4:9d:ae:99:a6:53:1f:44:9d:0d:
                    8e:4d:46:32:9e:0b:a8:ce:37:54:7f:ae:cc:35:3d:
                    b7:6e:64:54:25:9c:63:8c:b2:d8:3a:92:ce:b4:57:
                    ca:08:cb:ef:ca:2c:20:59:79:a7:35:1c:85:ba:32:
                    b3:9f:38:72:37:76:34:e0:05
                Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
        X509v3 extensions:
            X509v3 Basic Constraints:
                CA:FALSE
            Netscape Comment:
                OpenSSL Generated Certificate
            X509v3 Subject Key Identifier:
                09:89:A7:7B:66:C3:58:4D:4C:C5:80:C0:42:91:04:D2:67:04:C8:A1
            X509v3 Authority Key Identifier:

keyid:09:89:A7:7B:66:C3:58:4D:4C:C5:80:C0:42:91:04:D2:67:04:C8:A1

    Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
        0f:76:38:a8:d3:e6:a4:59:3f:ad:bd:60:69:c2:20:88:f0:20:
        74:ca:55:ae:d3:f0:f7:e9:a6:68:16:7e:b2:b4:e0:c5:45:5b:
        b4:94:60:a6:83:20:95:4c:72:04:80:93:4a:6b:64:20:ad:74:
        c4:1d:da:31:fd:37:92:d4:d8:46:a1:95:fc:4c:fc:85:6d:4f:
        56:18:0a:46:04:b5:98:5a:e0:64:4c:90:48:ff:9e:c0:92:0e:
        0c:c4:ba:85:c9:56:d7:4e:a5:9f:16:e2:76:4c:24:b6:c6:b6:
        2c:ef:63:f3:50:3f:90:12:57:8a:af:2f:21:93:e4:c8:aa:e7:
        ef:a9
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
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