Hello everyone! Today I’m going to talk about X.509 Basic Constraints certificate extension. Basic Constraints is an X.509 Version 3 certificate extension and is used to identify the type of the certificate holder/subject. In the past (prior to version 3 X.509 certificates) it was impossible to identify who is the subject: CA certificate or end…
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) estimates robocalls will constitute more than half of all phone calls placed in the U.S. this year. In an effort to end to this, the FCC and major telecommunications companies including Comcast, AT&T, and T-Mobile have lined up behind a new standard called SHAKEN/STIR (Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information using…
Read MoreDatabase log files are not truncated when you perform a full Certification Authority database backup
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. April 1, 2020 – The issue described here is applicable to Windows Server 2016 and older. Windows Server 2019 has changed the behavior of log truncation – when a backup is performed, all unused logs…
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As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. When you try to download CA certificate from web enrollment pages you get a prompt message with unreadable proposed file name: Do you want to save certnew_cer?ReqID=CACert&Renewal=1&Enc=bin (1,09 KB) from <ServerName> And when you press…
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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…
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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 and private…
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As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Hello folks! Today I want to explain in details about Active Directory containers related to ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services), their purposes and how they work. Intro All ADCS related containers are stored in configuration…
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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)…
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As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Issue Consider the following scenario: you are dumping CA database by using certutil, PowerShell or any other tool that utilizes ICertView2 interface and at some point you receive the following error Certutil: CertUtil: -view command FAILED: 0x80070006 (WIN32: 6) CertUtil:…
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