This is a quick post about extracting SSL certificates from websites, we'll need this step for some of the future posts that I'm going to write about SSL and HTTPS stuff. In general, you may want to extract this whenever you are trying to use some tool (not a web browser) or a code to access this website. Then after extracting this, you will require to install this into your tool or framework. With this post, I'm just covering the extraction part. I'll use the Chrome browser since it is one of the common browsers that is being used. In my example, I'm going to extract the public certificate of https://letsencrypt.org/ . (Let's Encrypt is one of the free Certificate Authority, probably I'll discuss this in one of the future posts.) 1. First, go to the website using the Chrome web browser. The website has to be in HTTPS. Otherwise, we don't want to do this in the first place. So, make sure your URL is starting with https://... 2. Click on th...
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