In the world of PKI and SSL some certificate authorities use browsers such as Internet Explorer or Firefox to automatically generate keypairs to be used with Email-S/MIME Code Signing or Client Authentication Certificates. Not all Browsers have the capability to generate these keypairs due to licensing restrictions of the <keygen> and ActiveX controls that perform […]
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Problem Windows Vista and Server 2008 trigger a security warning for code running in kernel mode if the code was signed with a SHA-256 Authenticode certificate. The current workaround is to use a SHA-1 certificate. However, SHA-1 is being deprecated. Patched versions of Windows 7 and newer versions of Windows operating systems will trigger a […]
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Web Browsers have now started marking HTTP sites as ‘Not Secure’ with release of Chrome 68+. For the past several years, Google strongly advising webmasters (sites) to adopting HTTPS encryption. Google said that within the last year, they helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP […]
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When restarting Apache, the following error message may appear: Error: AH02238: Unable to configure RSA server private key Cause: This error occurs when the incorrect private key (.key) and or public key (.crt/.pem – SSL Certificate) files are selected in the configuration file (https. conf or ssl.conf) Solution: You must use the same private key […]
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When restarting Apache, the following error message may appear: [error] mod_ssl: Init: (www.symantec.com:443) Unable to configure RSA server private key (OpenSSL library error follows) SSL Library Error: 185073780 error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines: X509_check_private_key: key values mismatch OpenSSL:error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:x509_check_private_key:key values mismatch Cause: This error occurs when the incorrect private key (.key) and or publick key (.crt/.pem […]
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What is Ask SSL Support Desk? It is a summary of random questions that have one to the attention of Acmetek’s most awesome technical support reps. Answered and shared for the SSL Support Desk’s SSL Library which is designed to teach and educate the community. Question: One of my customers is looking to get some […]
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Consider the following scenario when you are using Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2016: You remove the Microsoft Exchange Self-Signed certificate from the Exchange Back End Website by using Certificates MMC, Remove-Exchangecertificate, IIS Manager or another method. You clear the IIS cache by restart or IISReset. You are installing a new SSL […]
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What is Ask SSL Support Desk? It is a summary of random questions that have one to the attention of Acmetek’s most awesome technical support reps. Answered and shared for the SSL Support Desk’s SSL Library which is designed to teach and educate the community. Question: I need a Base64 encoded .cer format certificate to […]
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What is Ask SSL Support Desk? It is a summary of random questions that have one to the attention of Acmetek’s most awesome technical support reps. Answered and shared for the SSL Support Desk’s SSL Library which is designed to teach and educate the community. Question: I’m trying to create a pfx file for wildcard […]
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There are a lot of malware scanning services out there that will report any malicious code associated with your website. Some malware services will only report the problematic malicious code, and other services such as Sitelock provided by Acmetek Global Solutions take malware scanning to the next step and will actually remove the malware from your […]
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