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Digital Certificate (Signature) Verification in Software Installation
I need to know what exactly happens during digital certificate (signature) verification when a software is installed by the operating system. I understand that this is a asymmetric key process and I ...
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Store personal certificates encrypted in Windows?
I recently got my self an email S/MIME signing/encrypting certificate. I installed this on my Windows machine, which, obviously, required me to enter the password I used to encrypt the certificate, ...
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Limit USB drive use to computer with certificate
The problem.
USB drives are not allowed in our company but we have a few computers which are not on the network and have deep freeze installed.We need to be able to allow a few users to move files to ...
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What happens if the private key of a Certificate Authority(CA) like Verisign is leaked?
I was just wondering what will happen if the private key of a CA is leaked? Won't it be then possible to make fake certificates for any other website?
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Who knows an alternative to thawte's discontinued personal mail certificate service?
Here's the news: Thawte delivered the message about stopping it's free mail certification a week ago (by means of an an unsigned email).
StartSSL offers similar service, as well as CA Cert. But I ...
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Is there a license / royalty free DRM available for protecting and distributing content?
Is there a license / royalty free DRM available for protecting and distributing video content?