Server Certificate General Information

This section provides a tutorial example on how to view general information of a server certificate in Firefox 35.

As you can see from the previous tutorial, the General of the Certificate Viewer shows some basic information about the server certificate:

This certificate has been verified for the following uses:
 SSL Client Certificate
 SSL Server Certificate

Issued to
Common Name (CN)       *.login.yahoo.com
Organization (O)       Yahoo! Inc.
Organization Unit (OU) Information Technology
Serial Number          1F:98:67:CB:11:DA:69:B8:48:2B:BE:85:C7:5D:6...

Issued by
Common Name (CN)       VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3
Organization (O)       VeriSign, Inc.
Organization Unit (OU) VeriSign Trust Network


Period of Validity
Issued On              4/7/2014
Expires On             4/9/2015

Fingerprints
SHA1 Fingerprint       F1:CD:C8:39:8F:92:B5:74:DF:E1:1E:65:B1:43:7...
MD5 Fingerprint        D1:8D:C6:F4:0A:FE:EE:83:4C:1C:79:3B:FF:47:D...

See the picture below:

Server Certificate General Information
Server Certificate General Information

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

Using HTTPS with Firefox 35

 Visiting "https" Web Site with Firefox 35

 Viewing Server Certificate in Firefox 35

Server Certificate General Information

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in Firefox 35

 Exporting Server Certificate to File in Firefox 35

 Viewing Pre-Installed Certificates in Firefox 35

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in Firefox 35

 Exporting Certificate to File from Firefox 35

 Deleting Root CA Certificates from Firefox 35

 Firefox 35 Displaying Certificate Error Page

 Adding Security Exception in Firefox 35

 Failing to Import Root CA Certificates to Firefox 35

 Certificate Trust Settings in 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 Outdated Tutorials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