PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.32, by Herong Yang
Viewing Server Certificate Path in Mozilla Firefox
This section provides a tutorial example on how to view certificate path when visiting a 'https' Website in Mozilla Firefox. The top certificate in a certificate path is the root CA certificate, which is trusted automatically.
When a browser validates a server certificate, it will try to build a certificate path - an ordered list of certificates that satisfy these conditions:
Here is what I did to see the certificate path for https://login.yahoo.com Website on Mozilla Firefox.
1. Visit https://login.yahoo.com with Mozilla Firefox, and view the server certificate again.
2. Click the "Details" tab on the Certificate Viewer. A certificate path with 3 certificates shows up in the Certificate Hierarchy section:
DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA - Root CA certificate |- DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA - Intermediate CA certificate |- *.login.yahoo.com - Web server certificate
3. Click on "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" in the path to see more about this root CA certificate.
4. Click on "DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA" in the path to see more about this intermediate CA certificate
5. Click on "*.login.yahoo.com" in the path. to see more about this HTTPS Web server certificate.
What do you think about this certificate path? Should we trust login.yahoo.com now? I think this is a valid certificate path and we should trust login.yahoo.com, because:
The picture below shows an example of a certificate path:
Table of Contents
Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)
Using HTTPS with Google Chrome
►Using HTTPS with Mozilla Firefox
Visiting "https" Website with Mozilla Firefox
Viewing Server Certificate in Mozilla Firefox
Server Certificate General Information
►Viewing Server Certificate Path in Mozilla Firefox
Exporting Server Certificate to File in Mozilla Firefox
Viewing Pre-Installed Certificates in Mozilla Firefox
Listing of Trusted Root CA in Mozilla Firefox
Exporting Certificate to File from Mozilla Firefox
Deleting Root CA Certificates from Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox Displaying Certificate Error Page
Adding Security Exception in Mozilla Firefox
Failing to Import Root CA Certificates to Mozilla Firefox
Certificate Trust Settings in Mozilla Firefox
HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer)
Android and Server Certificate
Windows Certificate Stores and Console
RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and Server Certificate
macOS Certificate Stores and Keychain Access
Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers
PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers
Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers
.NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers
CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates
PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates
Comodo Free Personal Certificate
Digital Signature - Microsoft Word
Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3