Digital Certificates



The name RSA is an acronym for the surnames of three inventors of this algorithm: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman. They formed a company, RSA Security, which published several standard documents called Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS). These documents describe several aspects of cryptography

Technically, a digital signature is the hash of the data that's then encrypted with your private key. This means you need a certificate with an associated private key or a .pfx file. Based on such a certificate, you can create a CmsSigner object, which represents the signer of the data.

Makecert.exe utility can be used if certificate is quickly needed for testing purpose.
Selfssl.exe utility in the IIS Resource Kit is used for creating SSL key pairs as well as to configure IIS with such a key pair.

References:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hk8wx38z(v=vs.100).aspx

No comments:

Post a Comment