Certification Manager Window

Certification Manager Window¶

The Window/Best TLS Security/Certification Window menu item (or CTRL+ALT+E shortcut) opens the addon's Certification Manager. Using this window certificates can be added, updated and deleted.

1. Trusted Root CAs: Top-most, root certificates. Each root CA has a "root certificate" that is self-signed and serves as the starting point for trust. When you visit a website with HTTPS, for example, your browser checks the website's SSL/TLS certificate against the list of trusted root CAs. If the certificate is signed directly by a trusted root CA or by an intermediate CA that chains back to a trusted root, the browser will establish a secure connection without warnings.
2. Trusted Intermediate Certificates: They act as a link between the trusted root certificate authorities (CAs) and the end-entity certificates issued to domains. While root CAs are at the top of the certificate chain, intermediate certificates are necessary to create a chain of trust from the end-entity certificate back to the trusted root CA.
3. Client Certificates: Optional certificates that can be assigned to host names to send to the server during the TLS negotiation phase.
4. Testing Http Requests: With the help of this section, a HTTP request can be sent immediately to test certifications.

Testing HTTP Requests¶

A basic GET request can be sent out for the given domain to test the current setup.

1. Input field for the domain to test
2. Send button
3. Result of the request

Bottom Toolbar¶

1. Name and version number of this addon

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