What is challenge password?

What is challenge password?

The “challenge password” is basically a shared-secret nonce between you and the SSL certificate-issuer (aka Certification Authority, or CA), embedded in the CSR, which the issuer may use to authenticate you should that ever be needed.

What is challenge phrase in CSR?

A Challenge Phrase is a word or phrase that is used for security purposes. It is created at the time of enrollment for the following products: Digital IDs for Secure Email. SSL Certificates.

What is password certificate?

Certificates Eliminate Password Resets Certificates remove the onus from the end user and streamline the configuration process. Certificates eliminate the necessity of any sort of reset policy. Once a user is equipped with a certificate, they are granted network access until it expires.

How do you get rid of challenge phrase?

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Press Windows key + R to launch the Run command.
2. Type netplwiz and press Enter.
3. On the User Accounts window, select your username and uncheck Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer.
4. Click Apply.
5. Type your Password twice and click OK.

Does a PEM have a password?

The CAKey. pem and srvkey. pem files are installed with the same password “srvrootpwd”.

What’s the use of challenge password in build?

If you have a rogue admin who has access to the cert and key then that admin could revoke the cert and DOS you. But if you have a CA that will challenge the rogue admin to supply the “Challenge Password”, then the rogue admin may not have that password and then you’re safe from that DOS.

Is there an equivalent to build key pass?

I see that a build-key-pass exists to generate encrypted client keys, but no server equivalent exists. Still, both build-key and build-key-pass ask for a challenge password. “Challenge password” is an obscure and usually useless feature. -> Leave empty.

When do I need a challenge password for SSL?

1 Answer 1. The “challenge password” requested as part of the CSR generation, is different from the passphrase used to encrypt the secret key (requested at key generation time, or when a plaintext key is later encrypted – and then requested again each time the SSL-enabled service that uses it starts up).

Is the challenge password the same as the passphrase?

So I say again: the “challenge password” requested as part of the CSR generation is not the same thing as a passphrase used to encrypt the secret key.