Authentication: Certificates

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Authentication: Certificates

In this lab, you’ll practice creating and managing certificates. When you’re finished, you’ll have created multiple SSL certificates that allow for connection to a web server via https.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Oct 14, 2025

Duration

1h 0m

Challenge

Generating Your First Self-Signed SSL Certificate in Linux

In this lab you will be learning how to create and manage SSL certificates for the purpose of securing connections to a web server. To begin you will start by generating the simplest type of SSL certificate, a self-signed certificate, and use it to enable https connections on a Linux Machine
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Creating Your Own Certificate Authority on Windows

In this challenge, you will learn how to create a Certificate Authority, which is a server that can issue certificates to other machines.
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Configuring Your CA to Issue Certificates

In this challenge students will enable https on their CA using IIS configuration to allow other servers to request certificates
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Issuing and Revoking Certificates

In this challenge you learn how to issue a certificate via a CA and then revoke that certificate from the CA console
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Final Challenge

Acting as a web developer deploying your first application, try exporting the certificate that you created and deploying it to your apache server.

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