Posts by Vadims Podāns
Reminder: LDAP signing requirements in March 2020
In August 2018, Microsoft issued a security advisory ADV190023 Microsoft Guidance for Enabling LDAP Channel Binding and LDAP Signing about unsigned LDAP communication blocking in Active Directory starting with March 2020. A quick poll identified that not all customers are aware about upcoming changes or have prepared to them. What is LDAP Binding? LDAP binding…
Read MoreHow to create Certificate Trust List (CTL) using PowerShell
In this post, I will explain how to create custom certificate trust list (CTL) using PowerShell PKI (PSPKI) module. What is CTL? In short, CTL is a Microsoft open format of portable certificate container based on PKCS#7 format. Although, PKCS#7 already is a simple container for certificate, CTL provides several useful features: Name each list…
Read MorePowerShell PKI Module (PSPKI) v3.5 New Year Edition
Hello everyone, we are announcing a public availability of PowerShell PKI module v3.5 New Year Edition. New version is a big work around various aspects of PKCS#7 format and messages. Here is a summary of what we’ve done: Time-Stamp Protocol client As a part of improved support of PKCS#7 messages, we added a .NET-compatible RFC…
Read MoreASN.1 Editor v1.4 (Christmas Edition)
Hello world! I’m glad to announce a new version of ASN.1 Editor. I called this version as Christmas Edition, because it’s the end of the year. This version includes not only bug fixes, but some features. Changes in UI look When I shared screenshot of ASN tree view, not all people figured what numbers next…
Read MoreDeleting certificates from Windows Certificate Store programmatically (PowerShell and C#)
Yesterday I went through one thread on Reddit: New to PS and want to create a script to clear all personal certificates from a local machine and something was suspicious to me. Then I went further and asked google for similar question and examined first page: Delete certificate from Computer Store Removing a certificate from…
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