PKI Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.34, by Herong Yang
Visiting "https" Website with Mozilla Firefox
This section describes how Mozilla Firefox shows a lock icon when you visit an 'https' Website to provide you more security related information.
As I mentioned earlier in the book, Web browsers play very important roles in using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) to secure Web communications. Now let's see how Mozilla Firefox, as the leading Web browser, supports HTTPS.
1. Run Mozilla Firefox and go to Yahoo Website at https://www.yahoo.com. I see Yahoo home page displayed.
2. Click the site information icon next to the Website address. I see the a popup box displaying "Connection secure" and other Website information.
Chrome declared that Connection is secure, because it performed the following steps without any issues:
- Since this is HTTPS based URL, Firefox requested for the server, login.yahoo.com, to provide the server certificate.
- Firefox validated the server certificate and found no issue.
- Firefox created a one-time encryption key, encrypted with server's public key and delivered to the server.
- Server returned the Web page document encrypted with the encryption key.
Note that the website information icon in Firefox may look differently for different versions of Firefox. See examples in the picture below:
Table of Contents
Introduction of PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
Introduction of HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure)
Using HTTPS with Google Chrome
►Using HTTPS with Mozilla Firefox
►Visiting "https" Website with Mozilla Firefox
Viewing Server Certificate in Mozilla Firefox
Server Certificate General Information
Viewing Server Certificate Chain in Mozilla Firefox
Exporting Server Certificate to File in Mozilla Firefox
Viewing Pre-Installed Certificates in Mozilla Firefox
Listing of Trusted Root CA in Mozilla Firefox
Exporting Root Certificate to File from Mozilla Firefox
Deleting Root CA Certificates from Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox Displaying Certificate Error Page
Adding Security Exception in Mozilla Firefox
Failing to Import Root CA Certificates to Mozilla Firefox
Certificate Trust Settings in Mozilla Firefox
Using HTTPS with Microsoft Edge
Using HTTPS with IE (Internet Explorer)
Android and Server Certificate
Windows Certificate Stores and Console
RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and Server Certificate
macOS Certificate Stores and Keychain Access
Linux Certificate Stores and Tools
Perl Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers
PHP Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers
Python Scripts Communicating with HTTPS Servers
Java Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers
.NET Programs Communicating with HTTPS Servers
CAcert.org - Root CA Offering Free Certificates
PKI CA Administration - Issuing Certificates
Comodo Free Personal Certificate
Digital Signature - Microsoft Word
Digital Signature - OpenOffice.org 3