The PKI Guy explores IoT security with Doug Beattie of GlobalSign
Q&A with Doug Beattie, vice president of product management, GlobalSign TPG: Tell us about your scalable encryption. DB: GlobalSign is an identity services company providing cloud-based, highly scalable PKI solutions for enterprises needing to conduct safe commerce, communications, content delivery, and community interactions. Our identity and security solutions enable businesses, large enterprises, cloud-based service providers, and […]
Register TLS certificate with Remote Desktop Service using PowerShell
Hello everyone! This is a quick blog post that provides information on how to register TLS certificate with Remote Desktop Services (RDS). Starting with Windows Server 2008 R2 it became extremely easy to deploy RDS certificates to AD hosts from private CA using group policies and Microsoft CA. Since then RDS over TLS should be […]
Web server certificate enrollment with SAN extension
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Many of windows administrators requires to setup SSL on their web servers and mostly they wish to use certificates with the Subject Alternative Name extension that allows to map a single certificate to a multiple […]
The case of accidentally deleted user certificates
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Sometimes users accidentally delete their certificates from personal store. After that users are not able to perform certificate-based tasks, i.e. decrypt files or mail, sign data and authenticate. Some organizations implement Key Archival for certificate […]
You cannot submit a certificate request generated by Exchange Management Console (EMC) or Exchange Management Shell (EMS) to CA
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. You create certificate certificate by using either Exchange Management Console (EMC) or Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and save it to a file. When you attempt to submit certificate request to a Windows-based Certification Authority (CA) […]
How 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 […]
Hidden switches of Certutil.exe and Certreq.exe
Hey Kids, Rock and Roll! Two of the most reliable toolsets in Windows for the last two decades have been the tandem of certutil.exe and certreq.exe. It’s no secret there are a wealth of very useful functions exposed in the basic usage of these tools, also documented publicly here: certutil.exe public documentation certreq.exe public documentation […]
Deleting 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 […]