• 2025-06-28

Minimum data fields 2 – Digital Certificates and Certification Authorities

Note that the above Critical/Not Critical classification might differ from the guidelines of the Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum), a consortium of certification authorities, web browser vendors, and companies providing PKI-based applications. The CA/Browser Forum guidelines govern the issuing and management of X.509v3 certificates, including those used for TLS [43]. Figure 10.2 shows some…

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Minimum data fields – Digital Certificates and Certification Authorities

10.2.1 Minimum data fields According to X.509v1, a digital certificate has to contain at least the following eight data fields: Figure 10.1 shows some of these minimum data fields for the certificate of the web server www.amazon.com within Google Chrome’s certificate viewer. Figure 10.1: X.509v3 certificate of www.amazon.com as shown by Google Chrome’s certificate viewer…

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