A self signed certificate is signed with its own private key instead of the private key of a higher or publicly trusted certificate authority (CA).
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SSL Self-Signed Certificate Vulnerability Keeps Returning
So, I've been dealing with a recurring problem with my workstations self-generating certificates. They're appearing in the "Personal" certificate store. Even after I manually delete them from the machines, they inevitably keep returning.
We do not…

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Configuring Imported Self Signed SSL Certificate to SQL Server Express
I've created a self-signed certificate and configured with SQL Server Express. The encryption works fine on my PC.
When I export the certificate to another PC I can import fine and can see the certificate in MMC under Personal >…

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Cannot create SSL Engine: The target principle name is incorrect, SSL and SAP HANA
I'm getting the following error when attempting to connect to a tenant database in a multi-tenant SAP HANA Server running on SUSE Linux:
I can connect via SSL to the system database of the HANA server, and the server's certificate was created on…

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Will an IIS SelfSSL certificate still be valid when the signing server is replaced?
Will my 10 year valid self-signed certificate, that is using a common name not resembling any hostname, still be valid/trusted by others in the AD, after the signing server is replaced in maybe a few years?
It will be used for 802.1x…

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AWS API Gateway: self-signed cert for backend HTTP endpoint integration
I have a simple AWS API gateway endpoint. It accepts an https GET request, this is passed to a back-end https API via an integraiton request, and returns simple JSON.
This works great when we hit a back-end with an SSL cert from a trusted 3rd…

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Client Certificate Authentication and Windows Authentication on IIS
I have a https service hosted in IIS 10 which previously was using windows authentication, and was working good.
Now, we need to implement Client Certificate Authentication. Currently i have enabled both Client Certificate Mapping Authentication and…

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Certificate Error since Migrating to new Exchange 2007 Server
I just finished moving mailboxes last night to a second Exchange 2007 server I built (moving from physical to virtual). Clients are pointed to the new server. Getting ready to remove the old server from my domain.
We have an SSL certificate for…

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Is it possible to have full SSL security on localhost services?
I've been reading a lot about SSL certificate as of late and trying to get my localhost services to have SSL certificates to avoid warnings and whatnot. These services are 100% local, their ports are NEVER exposed to the outside.
I understand that…

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65536bit long certificate self-signing using openssl fails
I created my privatekey & certificate request using openssl req -new -newkey rsa:65536 > server.cert.csr. This took some minutes and produced 2 files.
Then I decrypted my private key using openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out server.cert.key
Now I want…

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How to get a signed powershell script on Windows without deprecated makecert.exe?
I've followed the instructions here Create Code Signing Certificate on Windows for signing PowerShell scripts
but it doesn't work as I get this error:
File C:\temp\script.ps1 cannot be loaded. A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root…

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Do I even need a federation certificate?
I'm in the process of migrating our Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016, which is going smoothly, except for one issue, which I just can't seem to find an answer to.
The 2010 Exchange had an expired Federation certificate, this of course was migrated to…

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SSL Self Signed certificate - How are they displayed on clients and how to configure?
I've added SSL to a website (Apache 2.2 w/ Centos 6) using a self signed key. Chrome, FF, and IE displays the following:
Chrome
Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your
information from test.example.com (for…

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Creating private key to certificate
I am trying to replace an expired certificate for a new one, with 2 years of validation(with IIS GUI to create self signed certificates I got just 1 year), and using exchange management shell, with:
new-exchangecertificate -subjectname "<...>"…

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nginx with multiple certificates, letsencrypt and self-signed
I would like so use Nginx as frontend SSL proxy with Letsencrypt certificates and also limit client access to certain backend servers with other (self-signed) certificate.
I cannot use Letsencrypt for both since it does not offer client…

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Cannot connect to a site with a self-signed certificate
So we've just set up a site with IIS 8.0, that is normally accesible via port 80 and no certificate requirement.
we've created a self signed certificate
we've set up site bindings through port 443 with the self signed certificate, IP address set…

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