Viewing Server Certificate Details in IE 10

This section provides a tutorial example on how to view certificate details when visiting an 'https' Web site in IE 10.

When you visit a "https" Web server, it will send its certificate to your browser. Server's certificate is needed by the browser for these 2 tasks:

Normally, your browser will do these 2 tasks automatically without your interaction. You don't need to know where is the server certificate and what's in the certificate.

But since I am interested to learn more about "https" communication, I want to see the server certificate. Here is what did on IE 10 to see details of the server certificate.

1. Run IE 10 and go to https://login.yahoo.com and wait for the log in page to be displayed.

2. Click the lock icon at the end of the Web address field. A small pop up windows shows up.

3. Click the "View certificates" link on the pop up window. The Certificate dialog box shows up. The General tab tells me this information:

This certificate is intended for the following purpose(s):
* Ensures the identify of a remote computer

Issued to: *.login.yahoo.com
Issued by: VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3
Valid from 4/7/2014 to 4/9/2015

4. If you click the Details tab, you will details of this certificate:

Version               V3
Serial number         ‎1f 98 67 cb 11 da 69 b8 48 2b be 85 c7 5d 67 e0
Signature algorithm   sha1RSA
Issuer                VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3
Valid from            Monday, ‎April ‎07, ‎2014 7:00:00 PM
Valid to              Thursday, ‎April ‎09, ‎2015 6:59:59 PM
Subject               *.login.yahoo.com
Public key            RSA (2048 Bits)
...

Cool. Now I see details of a real server certificate for commercial uses. The picture below shows you steps to see certificate details:

IE Certificate Detail View
Viewing Server Certificate Details in IE 10

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

 Visiting "https" Web Site with IE 10

Viewing Server Certificate Details in IE 10

 Viewing Server Certificate Path in IE 10

 Installing Server Certificate Permanently in IE 10

 Viewing Certificates in Certificate Stores in IE 10

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in IE 10

 Exporting Certificate to File from IE 10

 Saving Server Certificate to File with IE 10

 Deleting Certificates from IE 10

 IE 10 Supporting Multiple Certificate Paths

 IE 10 Reinstalling Root Certificates Automatically

 Windows Automatic Root Update Mechanism

 Using HTTPS with Chrome 40

 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