Visiting "https" Web Site with Chrome 40

This section describes how Chrome 40 shows a lock icon when you visit an 'https' Web site to indicate that the communication is secured with data encryption.

As I mentioned earlier in the book, Web browsers play very important roles in using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) to secure Web communications. Now let's see how Chrome 40, as a major Web browser, supports HTTPS.

1. Run Chrome 40 and go to Yahoo home page at www.yahoo.com.

2. Click "Mail" in the Yahoo side menu.

3. After Chrome 40 finishing displaying the login page, look at the left side of the URL address box. You will see a lock icon displayed next to the address:

Lock Icon on HTTPS Address - Chrome 40
Chrome 40 Showing Lock Icon on HTTPS Address

What happened here was:

The lock icon at the left side of the URL address indicates that this page is secured with HTTPS. If you click the lock icon, Chrome will provide you more security related information for this page. See next sections for more details.

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

 Using HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer) 10

Using HTTPS with Chrome 40

Visiting "https" Web Site with Chrome 40

 Viewing Server Certificate in Chrome 40

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in Chrome 40

 Exporting Server Certificate to File in Chrome 40

 Viewing Trusted Root CA Certificates in Chrome 40

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in Chrome 40

 Exporting Root Certificate to File from Chrome 40

 Deleting Root CA Certificates from Chrome 40

 Chrome 40 Shares Windows PKI with IE

 Using HTTPS with Firefox 35

 Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Certificate Stores and Certificate Console

 .NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates

 PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates

 Digital Signature - Microsoft Word 2007

 Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3

 S/MIME and Email Security

 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Terminology

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version