Inside Certificates

Presented by Paul "Dash" Wojcicki-Jarocki
Nobody talks about certificates, though you find them everywhere: PowerShell script signing, WinRM session authentication, HTTPS. During this session, we'll take a look inside a certificate, create our own, and put it to some practical use.

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Starting with a quick review of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), we'll discuss the concept of trust and differentiate between common scenarios. What needs to happen when you sign code? How does encryption work?

Walking step-by-step through the process of creating a self-signed certificate, we'll discuss the properties of a X509Certificate2 object and understand their intended uses.

Because a certificate from a public Certification Authority (CA) has much broader scope of use, we'll see the ACME request process and use the resultant certificate for practical applications, including installation in on-premise IIS, an Azure App Service, using to secure a WinRM remoting session, and of course signing our PowerShell script!

[kurtdegreeff]

Thanks for this great talk on certificates