Future Topics

  • Important Data formats

    • ASN.1 with DER and PEM

    • X.509

    • PKCS#12

    • PKCS#10

    • PKCS#7/CMS

    • SSH and PKCS#8 (?)

  • Enrollment Protocols

    • SCEP

    • ACME

    • EST

    • Microsoft's RPC/DCOM

    • Microsoft's SOAP

    • Manual enrollment on the CA's web page

    • Other proprietary protocols

  • Other Protocols or Standards

  • Tools

    • certutil

    • guiDumpASN

    • OpenSSL/LibreSSL

  • Families of Cryptography Algorithms

    • Hashes

    • Symmetric Cryptography

    • Asymmetric Cryptography

      • RSA

      • El Gamal

      • Elliptic Curves

    • Secret Sharing

    • Message Authentication Codes

  • Certificate Use Cases

    • Authentication

      • WiFi

      • VPN

      • Web Sites (mTLS)

      • Smart Card Logon

      • Server Authentication (TLS)

      • Kerberos

    • Encryption

      • Disk Encryption (BitLocker?)

      • EFS

      • S/MIME Encryption

    • Signatures

      • Code Signing

      • Document Signing

      • S/MIME Signatures

  • Other stuff

    • Certifried attack

    • Managing Certificate Lifecycles with CRL, OCSP, ...

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