Re: overview of server certificate mechanism with open ssl

2014-04-14 Thread Vladimir Zatsepin
Hi, A certificate is not secret information itself. It may be distributed over LAN or Internet as free. A certificate doesn't contain a private key. A certificate can not be stolen. Every certificate has a special field inside it - fingerprint. This field contain sha-1 or md5 digest value which m

overview of server certificate mechanism with open ssl

2014-04-14 Thread drkmkzs
Hello I have some generic questions about usage of openssl for https; i'm not into security, and i 'dont know very well openssl, so maybe my questions will appear a little noob, sorry if it does Just for info, i'm developping a client app that have to interact with server. I'm on linux and window