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Title: PKI Certificate Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

Author: Herong Yang - Contact by email via herong_yang@yahoo.com.

Category: COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography

Version/Edition: v1.13, 2026

Number of pages in PDF format: 214

Description: This tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PKI certificate related technologies. Topics include PKI architecture and CA (Certificate Authorities); PKI certificate types and DER/PEM file formats; Certificate tools: OpenSSL and 'keytool'; Certificate stores, PKCS7 and PKCS12 file formats; Linux Trust Store. Updated in 2026 (Version v1.13) with minor changes.

Keywords: CA, Certificate, HTTPS, ODI, PKI, Security, X.509.

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Table of Contents

About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of PKI Certificate

 PKI Certificate File Formats

 OpenSSL - Cryptography Toolkit

 "openssl ca" - CA (Certificate Authority) Tool

 Java "keytool" Commands and KeyStore Files

 PKI Certificate Store

 PKCS12 Certificate Bundle File

 PKCS7 Certificate Chain File

 Linux Trust Store for CA Certificates

 ca-certificates - Linux CA Certificate Package

 update-ca-trust Command on Red Hat Computers

 PKI Certificate Related Terminology

 References

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