17.12 Verifying a Trusted Remote Host’s Certificate
Certificates issued by certification authorities have the certification authority’s signature for you to check.
17.12.1 Trusted Remote Host Certificate Fingerprints
A certificate’s fingerprints are message digests calculated using the MD5 or SHA1 algorithms. The following procedure describes how to use a certificate’s fingerprint to verify that you have the remote host’s actual certificate.
1Browse to where you have the remote host’s certificate saved on your computer.
2Make sure that the certificate has a “.cer” or “.crt” file name extension.
Figure 149 Remote Host Certificates
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Figure 150 Certificate Details
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