The Certificate Info Dialog

To see the details of a certificate one can press the Info button on the Security Preference Page. This will bring up the Certificate Information dialog. This dialog shows the details for a X.509 certificate in two tabs.

Overview

The following screenshot shows the Overview tab of the Certificate Information dialog:

The Certificate Info Dialog

This tab contains some basic information about the certificate (or the first certificate of a certificate chain). It is divided in three sections: some general information about the validity and the serial number of the certificate, a section for the subject of the certificate ("Issued to") and a section for the issuer of the certificate ("Issued from").

Details

The following screenshot shows the Details tab of the Certificate Information dialog:

The Certificate Info Dialog

This tab contains much more information about the certificate than the Overview tab. In the upper part, one can select the certificate of a certificate chain for which more detailed information should be shown. The certificate structure tree shows the structure of the selected certificate including the certificate extension as defined for X.509 V3 certificates. By selecting one of the items in the structure tree the corresponding information is shown in the lower (Field value) part of the dialog.