Viewing Server Certificate Path in Chrome 40

This section provides a tutorial example on how to view server certificate path when visiting a 'https' Web site in Chrome 40. The top certificate in a certificate path is the root CA certificate, which is trusted by browser settings.

When a browser validates a server certificate, it will try to build a certificate path - an ordered list of certificates that satisfy these conditions:

Here is what I did to see the certificate path for https://login.yahoo.com Web site on Chrome 40.

1. Run Chrome 40 and go to https://login.yahoo.com and wait for the log in page to be displayed.

2. Click the lock icon at the left side of the URL address area. The page security dialog box shows up.

3. Click the "Connection" tab. The connection security information is displayed.

4. Click the "Certificate information" link. The Certificate dialog box shows up.

5. Click the "Certificate Path" tab. A certificate path with 3 certificates shows up in the Certificate Path section:

VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5
|- VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3
   |- *.login.yahoo.com

6. Click on "VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5" in the path to see more information about the root CA certificate.

7. Click on "VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3" in the path, to see more information about the intermediate CA certificate.

What do you think about this certificate path? Should we trust login.yahoo.com now? I think this is a valid certificate path and we should trust *.login.yahoo.com, because:

The picture below shows you the certificate path view of a server certificate:

Certificate Path View - Chrome 40
Viewing Server Certificate Path on Chrome 40

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)

 Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)

 Using HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer) 10

Using HTTPS with Chrome 40

 Visiting "https" Web Site with Chrome 40

 Viewing Server Certificate in Chrome 40

Viewing Server Certificate Path in Chrome 40

 Exporting Server Certificate to File in Chrome 40

 Viewing Trusted Root CA Certificates in Chrome 40

 Listing of Trusted Root CA in Chrome 40

 Exporting Root Certificate to File from Chrome 40

 Deleting Root CA Certificates from Chrome 40

 Chrome 40 Shares Windows PKI with IE

 Using HTTPS with Firefox 35

 Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 Certificate Stores and Certificate Console

 .NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers

 CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates

 PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates

 Digital Signature - Microsoft Word 2007

 Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3

 S/MIME and Email Security

 PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) Terminology

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version