Experiment No.

: 13

ELO13-

Create and Verify Digital Certificate using tool (eg Cryptool)

Objective(s)-
Create Digital Certificate and Verify it using tool.
Theory-

Digital certificate is issued by a trusted third party which proves sender's identity to the receiver
and receiver’s identity to the sender.
A digital certificate is a certificate issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) to verify the identity of
the certificate holder. The CA issues an encrypted digital certificate containing the applicant’s
public key and a variety of other identification information. Digital certificate is used to attach
public key with a particular individual or an entity.
Digital certificate contains:-
1. Name of certificate holder.
2. Serial number which is used to uniquely identify a certificate, the individual or the entity
identified by the certificate
3. Expiration dates.
4. Copy of certificate holder's public key.(used for decrypting messages and digital signatures)
5. Digital Signature of the certificate issuing authority.
Digital certificate is also sent with the digital signature and the message.

Screenshots (Steps)

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, click Microsoft Office, click Microsoft Office Tools, and then
click Digital Certificate for VBA Projects. The Create Digital Certificate box appears.

2. In the Your certificate's name box, type a descriptive name for the certificate.

3. Click OK.

4. When the SelfCert Success message appears, click OK.

To view the certificate in the Personal Certificates store, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, and then click the Content tab.

3. Click Certificates, and then click the Personal tab.

Conclusion-Thus we have Create and Verify Digital Certificate using tool.