Certificates and Certificate Authority Explained 

At 7:53 I incorrectly said that the server sends the public key and private key obviously that is not correct it was just a slip. It only sends the public key and the information. The private key is only known to the server. I explain this fully here What are SSL/TLS Certificates? Why do we Need them? and How do they Work? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r1nJT63BFQ0.html

let me go ahead and say that without fancy animations or graphics, just your hand-shaking-thing you were able to very well convey the explanation. thanks!

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Thanks for this video. Im learning about this in school right now and was having a hard time understanding it but you cleary explained the process. These textbooks go a little off track on some of these things lol!

Ok 2 things that are very wrong: 1- the server that needs a certificate never sends the private key to the certificate authority. 2- to verify a certificate you don't encrypt and compare. You actually decrypt the signature of the certificate authority using the CA's public key so you get the hash and then you hash the certificate and compare the two, the one you calculated by hashing the contents of the certificate and the one you got from decrypting the signature. If these values match then it's verified. And I am omitting here the chain of authority like you did in the video. Hence I am considering the certificate authority is the root CA.

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Hello Hussein, you said the CA encrypts the server's information as well as its public key with the CA's private key to issue it a certificate and the client even though trusts the CA verifies the server's certificate by using the public key of the CA to encrypt the information in the server's certificate and then compares it with the part the CA encrypted. How would they match when the CA uses it's private key for encryption and the client uses the CA's public key for encrypting the content of the server's certificate

Very helpful..thanks for doing these.. do you have book recommendations for various topics like - security, networking, distributed systems, microservices etc. basically for everything related to backend.

Excellent! Thank you! One question: What stops the man-in-the-middle from taking the certificate he recieves from google and passing it on to the client?

So even with an Asymmetric key using both public and private on both ends can the information still be intercepted as explained or was this lesson in reference to symmetric single key encryption?

Hey Hussein, Thanks for your great content, I have a question here, might be a bit basic. We don't get the unencrypted data from the server right, how does the client generate the encrypted data with the public key of the certificate authority?

Thank you very much about this video, it explained a lot as other explanation didn't give technical explanation about how this works and also specially that you giving example which made it much easier to understand. at 9:25 does we use public key to encrypt or decrypt?

Great video I suggest the use of graphics too to make people who are more visual

Thanks for explaining this topic. In many videos you have talked about Relational DB can be scaled for reads , Can you make a video to explain this by example and also how MySQL global transaction actually work by an example , thanks for your awesome work.

Hi Hussein. Thanks for the video. I'm not sure I completely understand the certificate verification part. I understood it as if I need to validate the certificate that is encryped with googles public key and the CA private key. How does that vertification happen? How do I end up with a certificate that is equivalent to that of the one signed by googles public key and the CA private key when I don't have the CA private key?

Perhaps the companies could store their public Keys in some kind of blockchain, that way we wouldn't relay in Root authorities, of course that will have some cons aswell

Wow 🥳thet was clarify a lot Thank u very much...pleased u can explain about certificate root?? I don't actually understand it...

Thanks Hussein for all of this. Helps a lot! Can you (or anyone reading this) expand on why the man-in-the-middle can't just forward the certificate provided by Google to impersonate Google for example. That's the only piece im missing!

so then vpn can also be called middle man ?

Hussein, thank you for your videos I've been watching a few of them last few days and noticed today in your background you have a bunch of programming books. How useful would you say it is reading books to truly understand a concept vs just either just getting dug in the problem or watching videos etc.? E.g. lets say there is a concept I really need to understand in Azure and how to setup certificates, key rotation and be able to setup some form of automation testing. Now I have such limited knowledge on everything that entails.. when do you think is a good idea to just slow down and pick a book up rather than attack the problem head on always? This might be a video idea for you!

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The example of Kazakhstan helped me understand the whole topic 😂

I tried to connect a TOP OPC UA Server with UA Expert Client. I do the certificates by using OpenSSL. I didn`t use an intermediate certificate, just the root, which signs the server cert and the server signs the client cert. The connection is being recognized, because a pop up window appears stating that the connection was recognized. But once I click on the connect button in UA Expert an error occurs saying: Error: UaSessionPrivate::activateSession - can't find X509IdentityToken in endpoint description. Thank you for your feedback if possible.

Please make a video on how they are created and also about root certificate aaaaand certification with regards to antivirus and application software

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How can I learn more about this and other similar topics? Any recommended books?

I could be mistaken but it may be wise to apply Preventative maintenance efforts when it comes to the CMOS battery. Again I could be misunderstanding but if the CMOS battery fails or the NTP server, this may require manual peer list to align with the domain controllers. Are these concerns? Maybe a good discussion you can shine light on? I’m guessing locking out all end user accounts will allow to re-sync. Is this paranoia? Or do I have the right idea?

Love your videos! Just a request, could you make videos on caching with redis? Particularly feed caching like twitter, instagram. Push and pull model. Thanks

@hnasr, can you help me pls? I am opening exe file with 7zip and have .tls (empty file in Windows CRLF encoding) and CERTIFICATE ( file in Macintosh CR encoding, where all symbols messed, except strings indicating urls to .crl and CA names) Can you reproduct the same on your exe and explain what this .tls stands for? And how to decode CERTIFICATE?

What is the difference between Offline Root CA & Subordinate CA ?

Nice work, I am researching how I could have intranet web service using https. It seems you can’t have this kind of certificates for in-house servers. But I don’t want to have the traffic as plain text. How this could be done... Should I make my CA and add a certificate to each and every device, or there is something better? Thanks

Hello Nice video...can you explain what is an intermidiated certificat?

This question really bugging me ,is the first ever transaction when I type google.com or anyother site will it be encrypted? Can the domain name be identified during the first request before key exchange?

What if there happens to be a MITM attack between google server and certificate authority and the attacker gets certificate sent by CA to google?

What was that boom at 13:19

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Is my certificate of authority downloadable? If yes what is it called on FMSCA portal? Thanks

I have a question here, not sure if that sounds silly. What if someone breaks in middle while we are connecting certificate authority for verification?

If I on my browser can get google signed certificate, can't man-in-the-middle get it too and forward it back to the client?

Great informative video Hussein; I got a doubt about how servers generate public and private keys which are already not registered with CA? suppose "server A" generated a key pair and sent it to the CA(only public key, as your pinned comment says) then "server B" generated the same key pair and send it to the CA, how CA will handle this ambiguity? I don't know what I am saying is even correct...

Major fear about cert auth is how easy will it be for govts to ask for keys of entities that are of interest to govt? Is that possible?

Can u also talk about the chain of trust. Cert pinning and public key pinning? Also what if Hacker just gives the real cert of Google to you.? You will see that cert is valid right? It looks like that the connection gets established but the client encrypts the data with public key of real Google and hence the Hacker can't actually see anything there? Is this true that the connection gets established ?

My new android comes with root CA from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and a few other countries. Wouldn't I want to shut those off? Why would my device need to trust their site?

At 9:19 you incorrectly said "Encrypt the content" while it's a Decryption process from your end (from the client's end/the message receiver), and Re-Hashing afterword's for comparing purposes... so you can ensure the integrity and authenticity of the digital certificate or the message you have received from Google in your example. @Hussein Nasser

2:10 No, TLS uses two different Asymmetric keys; public key to encrypt and private key to decrypt 7:45 What! hell no. Private key must never be shared, otherwise you broke the main concept of the SSL/TLS.

Poor Karen... even "man in the middle" has become "Karen in the middle" now :D

Can i know which cif i can trust ? Mayve get rid off ones i don't trust , was getting ass holes bugging me

I have a Skills Proficiency certificate for Basic Plumbing... Those that mean I'm a Plumber?

Can someone recommend me some good books on this?

I have a doubt wrt to CA and their digital signature. So website owner gives some Information to CA, CA encrypts that with its private key. Now the websites will send the browser the same information along with the content which CA encrypted. Now you said the browser will encrypt the information with CA public key and compare it with the CA encrypted content and trust if both are same right? My doubt is does asymmetric key work like this? Public key - PU Private key - PR Content - C So, C encrypted with PU == C encrypted with PR ??