PKI & X.509 Certificate Chain

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solves the trust problem: how does your browser know a public key actually belongs to google.com and not an attacker? Certificate Authorities (CAs) answer with a chain of digital signatures.

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Certificate Chain

Root CA

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Intermediate CA

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Server Cert

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Issuer: -
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Verification Steps

Intermediate CA signed server cert

Root CA signed Intermediate cert

Root CA in browser trusted store

Validity dates & domain match

Event Log