Cryptography Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.42, by Herong Yang
Archived: Visiting an "https" Web Site with Firefox 18
This section describes how Firefox 18 shows a lock icon when you visit an 'https' Web site to provide you more security related information.
As we learned in the previous chapter, if a Web site wants to encrypt communication messages with your browser, it will enable the SSL protocol and use "https" as part of their Web address.
If you go to a Web site that provides online services, I am sure that you will see "https" in the Web address field starting on the log in page. This indicates that Web site uses SSL protocol to encrypt all information you send and receive on this server.
If you are using Firefox 18, it will display an extra lock icon in front of the Web address field when you are visiting an "https" Web site. The picture below shows the "https" Web address and the lock icon when you use Firefox 18 to visit the Facebook log in page: "https://www.facebook.com":
If you click the lock icon, Firefox will provide you a summary of security related information about this Web site. For https://www.facebook.com Web site, you will get something like:
You are connected to "facebook.com" which is run by (unknown) Verified by: VeriSign Trust Network Your connection to this website is encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. [More Information...]
More security related information will be provided if you click the "More Information" button. See next sections.
Table of Contents
Introduction to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
DES Algorithm - Illustrated with Java Programs
DES Algorithm Java Implementation
DES Algorithm - Java Implementation in JDK JCE
DES Encryption Operation Modes
PHP Implementation of DES - mcrypt
Blowfish - 8-Byte Block Cipher
Secret Key Generation and Management
Cipher - Secret Key Encryption and Decryption
RSA Implementation using java.math.BigInteger Class
Introduction of DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)
Java Default Implementation of DSA
Private key and Public Key Pair Generation
PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards
Cipher - Public Key Encryption and Decryption
OpenSSL Introduction and Installation
OpenSSL Generating and Managing RSA Keys
OpenSSL Generating and Signing CSR
OpenSSL Validating Certificate Path
"keytool" and "keystore" from JDK
"OpenSSL" Signing CSR Generated by "keytool"
Migrating Keys from "keystore" to "OpenSSL" Key Files
Certificate X.509 Standard and DER/PEM Formats
Migrating Keys from "OpenSSL" Key Files to "keystore"
Using Certificates in Google Chrome
Archived: Visiting "https" Web Site with Chrome 24
►Archived: Visiting an "https" Web Site with Firefox 18
Archived: Managing Certificates in Firefox 18
Archived: Visiting "https" Web Site with Firefox 3
Archived: Managing Certificates in IE 9