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The layman’s guide to X.509 certificate jargon

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Nicole Berdy
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Mar 17, 2021
Is there anything more fraught than managing device certificates? Probably, but you generally don't encounter subatomic physics in IoT*. In the case of certificates, it does not help that we treat th...
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anishpk123
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Mar 20, 2021

Can you give some insights on the following points:

1) Use of Blockchain in PKI

2) How to handle self signed key installed in a HSM of device which need to be provisioned in IoT Hub compared to openSSL created X.509 certificate

3) Is there any other authority certificates  apart from open SSL which Azure supports for auto-device provisioning?

 

4) Can you provide some insights about the history and significance of CA signed and self signed certificates ?