PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 2.04, by Dr. Herong Yang
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:
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
Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)
Using HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer) 10
►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
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