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QUESTION: Certificate expiration occurs during which stage of certificate management?Initialization Issued Cancellation Hold - ANSWER-Cancellation
-Certificate management stages include:
Initialization Stage (certificate registration, certificate creation/distribution, certificate dissemination) Issued Stage (certificate retrieval, certificate validation) Cancellation Stage (certificate expiration, certificate revocation)
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2 QUESTION: What action does a CA take prior to publishing a CRL to ensure the list can be validated as authentic by those checking it for certificate statuses?CA duplicates the list CA signs the list with the CA's own public key CA signs the list with the CA's own private key - ANSWER-CA signs the list with the CA's own private key -The CA will sign the list with the CA's own private key so that the list may be validated as authentic using the CA's shared public key.
QUESTION: An entity looking to obtain a digital certificate, will create and submit a _____ to the CA to formally request the certificate.
CSR PEM PKCS registration authority - ANSWER-CSR -Someone looking to obtain a digital certificate will first generate an asymmetric key pair and then generate a certificate signing request (CSR). The person will provide the CA with the public key from the generated key pair along with the CSR to formally request a digital certificate.
- Basic steps for obtaining a digital certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA):
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3 Step 2: Requester creates a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and submits CSR (which includes public key from the key pair generated) to the CA.Step 3: CA validates submission and generates the digital certificate for the requester.Step 4: CA signs the requester's digital certificate with the CA's own private key and issues certificate to the requester.
QUESTION: A ____ is a trusted third party that creates and issues digital certificates.
RA CA CSR
DER - ANSWER-CA
-The certificate authority (CA) is a trusted 3rd party that creates and issues digital certificates.An entity looking to obtain a digital certificate must first generate ____.a symmetric key an asymmetric key pair a registration authority a certificate authority - ANSWER-an asymmetric key pair 3 / 4
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4 -Someone looking to obtain a digital certificate will first generate an asymmetric key pair and then generate a certificate signing request (CSR). The person will provide the CA with the public key from the generated key pair along with the CSR to formally request a digital certificate.
- Basic steps for obtaining a digital certificate signed by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA):
Step 1: Requester generates a keypair (one public, one private).
Step 2: Requester creates a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and submits CSR (which includes public key from the key pair generated) to the CA.Step 3: CA validates submission and generates the digital certificate for the requester.Step 4: CA signs the requester's digital certificate with the CA's own private key and issues certificate to the requester.
QUESTION: Which encoding scheme for X.509 certificates supports Base64 and ASCII text formats?
DER CSR IKE
PEM - ANSWER-PEM
- Two major encoding schemes for X.509 certificates: PEM (Base64, ASCII text) format, and DER
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(binary) format.