Client Certificates 🔗

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What are and what you can do with them 🔗

Client certificate is a type of digital certificate that is used by client systems to make authenticated requests to a remote server.

With a client certificate you can get access to variety of service that require authentication like editing this wiki.

What you need to do:

• Get key pair which identificate you and grant you access to the server, i.e. vpn keys
• Generate your client certificate with the following command

openssl pkcs12 -export -out <servername>.pfx -inkey <username>.key -in <username>.crt -certfile <servername>.crt

• Add the certificate to your browser:

  (Chromium)

  • go to chrome://settings/certificates
  • choose your certificate
  • choose Import
  • select <servername>.pfx
  • done

  (Firefox)

  • go to about:preferences#privacy
  • click View Certificates
  • choose your certificate
  • choose Import
  • select <servername>.pfx
  • done