Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Digital Certificates, But Were Afraid To Ask …
And, so, yesterday, our cybersecurity students covered one of the most important areas of cybersecurity — and perhaps one of the least understood:
Digital certificates and trust
It’s a make-or-break time and is the point that students will actually see how all the component parts of secure and trusted communications actually fit together. But are digital certificates well understood by many cybersecurity professionals and developers?
Overall, digital certificates — and the associated PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) — provide the root of trust on the Internet, and without them, we could trust very little on the Web. So, here’s a quick introduction:
The basics of public key encryption are not too difficult to understand, and where Bob creates a key pair: a public key and a private key. One key will encrypt, and the other will decrypt. And, digital certificates, too, are actually not that difficult to understand.
