Virginia Tech Middleware CA
Certification Practices Statement
Virginia Tech disclaims any responsibility
and/or warranties in regards to this digital certificate, to any public
key infrastructure issuing or using this certificate, and to any information
and materials resulting from the usage of this digital certificate on university
or non-university systems that are available over publicly accessible networks.
Individuals using this digital certificate and computer systems owned by
Virginia Tech do so subject to applicable laws and/or University policies.
Message Digest
for the Virginia Tech Middleware CA:
SHA1: 6D:66:43:4D:7C:2E:6B:CC:04:82:EC:3A:73:22:6F:68:35:A7:E1:BA
MD5: FD:73:32:62:25:BC:FD:63:AD:D2:60:BC:2B:C3:5B:75
Certification Practices and Certificate Profiles
Signature Verification Example:
In order to verify the digital signature by the Virginia Tech Root CA on the Virginia Tech Middleware CA Certificataion Practices Document,
you must have software installed which will allow you to process a digitally signed PKCS#7 document. For
example if you have OpenSSL installed, you can
verify the digital signature as follows:
- Download the PKCS#7 Digitally Signed PDF Document to a file named vtmwcps.sig
- Download the Virginia Tech Root CA certificate in PEM format to a file named cacert.pem
- Execute the following OpenSSL command to verify the digital signature:
openssl smime -verify -inform PEM -in .\vtmwcps.sig -CAfile .\cacert.pem -out .\vtmwcps.pdf -signer .\cacert.pem
- You should see the message "Verification successful". A clear text version of the Virginia Tech Middleware CA Certification Practices will be created in the file vtmwcps.pdf
Message Digest
for vtmwcps.pdf:
SHA1: 00:05:C4:A8:A9:4F:D2:59:B9:97:CB:27:B2:9E:AD:BB:9D:22:FA:BB
MD5: 2D:8A:F3:CE:B4:EC:99:1D:87:85:B4:69:F4:7F:32:B7
- Execute the following OpenSSL command to verify the SHA1 digest:
openssl dgst -sah1 ./vtmwcps.pdf
- Execute the following OpenSSL command to verify the MD5 digest:
openssl dgst ./vtmwcps.pdf
- You should see the SHA1 or MD5 message digest displayed.
[Just for information]
To download to a local file using the links above, do one of the following:
- Right-click on the link and select the Save Target As ... or Save Link As ... option.
- <CTRL>-click on the link and select the Save Target As ... or Save Link As ... option.
- If you are using Netscape, hold down shift key and click on the download link.
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