Digital Certificate Demystified

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Security and Compliance

Tags: Proceedings , SHARE in Anaheim 2012 , 2012

This is a beginner's guide to digital certificates. After the session, the participants will have a basic understanding on what a certificate is and how it works based on the public key cryptography technology, why there are different types certificates like SSL certificates, code signing certificates, EV (Extended Validation) certificates... and what differentiate them, how long should a certificate be renewed, how to decide if they need to be issued by a commercial certificate authority (CA) or issued internally. Ross Cooper ; IBM Corporation

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