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What is the difference between a certificate and a key with respect to SSL?

Whenever I try to understand anything about SSL I always have a hard time keeping track of what "key" and "certificate" refer to. I fear many people use them incorrectly or interchangeably. Is there ...
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24 votes
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How to provide a verified server certificate for Remote Desktop (RDP) connections to Windows 10

We have a Windows 10 Pro machine at our office which has an open port to the internet for incoming remote desktop connections (a ‘host’). It is well protected by complex password and limited number of ...
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24 votes
1 answer
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IE9: Permanently accept untrusted certificate

When accessing a website via HTTPS which has an untrusted certificate, Internet Explorer 9 always shows me the following error message: Is there a way to import the certificate permanently, so that I ...
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Check expiry date of ssl certificate for multiple remote servers

I can find out the expiry date of ssl certificates using this OpenSSL command: openssl x509 -noout -in <filename> -enddate But if the certificates are scattered on different web servers, how ...
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The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided

Could anyone explain the meaning of this error message in plain English? Should I add an exception or I should not continue on this website? Technical details: the URL is here, the browser is ...
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15 votes
8 answers
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Continually getting https certificate errors on all browsers

I recently switched to a new laptop running Windows 7. For some reason I am constantly getting certificate errors when hitting sites where I really shouldn't be getting them - twitter, picasa, google ...
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10 votes
3 answers
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Can't make Chrome to trust my certificate

I am serving web pages inside LAN with my own certificate, signed by my own CA. Chrome warns connection is not trusted with the following details: I am trying to add inthemoon-ca to Trusted Root ...
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8 votes
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Trust SSL certificate to local system account

I have the following need: A windows service needs to connect to a svn repository through https. The service needs also to run as local system account for IO permissions on the machine. Now when the ...
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3 answers
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How to turn off Opera server certificate messages?

While I'm browsing the Internet, Opera always pop out a lots of from these Server certificate expired boxes. Several times it pops out a tons from them and I have to click to Approve on each of them ...
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Certificates signed by multiple CAs

Is it possible to have a OpenSSL Certificate signed by multiple CAs? Background: We have a CA to issue certificates mainly for our machine-to-machine communications. Now we need to make some services ...
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Expired web/SSL certificate error on only one computer

I have a strange problem with one website's SSL certificate that only affects one computer Windows 7 operating system. The site works fine on other Win 7 computers with no error, pulling valid ...
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Make Chrome trust the Linux system certificate store or select certificates via policies

I need to trust a self-signed certificate on a lot of managed Linux desktops. I have imported them into the trust store of the OS, curl, wget etc. trust them. However browsers like Firefox and Chrome (...
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1 answer
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How to create private security certificates that behave like official ones?

I'm trying to get a valid secured environment for HTTP communication to behave like normal ones. I'm doing this for a restricted group of users. There is a hardware server running a web service (nginx)...
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2 answers
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Why is the local certificate store missing in Windows 8.1?

I am trying to import a self-signed certificate into the local certificate store of the Trusted Root CAs on my Windows 8.1 machine, but that store is missing. Importing it into the Trusted Root CAs ...
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5 votes
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Firefox "invalid certificate" error for a trusted website (sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial)

I am connecting to a website (via Firefox 6.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8) I know is legitimate, and the connection worked up till yesterday. However, when I connected to day I got the following error: ...
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