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
Other Protocols or Standards
Tools
certutil
guiDumpASN
OpenSSL/LibreSSL
Families of Cryptography Algorithms
Hashes
Symmetric Cryptography
Asymmetric Cryptography
Certificate Use Cases
Authentication
WiFi
VPN
Other stuff
Certifried attack
Managing Certificate Lifecycles with CRL, OCSP, ...
Microsoft's SOAP
Manual enrollment on the CA's web page
Other proprietary protocols
RSA
El Gamal
Elliptic Curves
Secret Sharing
Message Authentication Codes
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
Everything you never wanted to know about X.509, but were forced to find out
This site presents technical information about digital certificates, their use cases, as well as related data formats and protocols. Whether you want to run your own PKI, or use one, you will find some useful information how to deal with it.
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