!!! Overview The [{$pagename}] is the [Certificate Signature] (or [fingerprint]) as is displayed as the Fingerprints section when looking at a [Certificate] with [Chrome] or [Firefox] and the [Thumbprint] in [Microsoft]'s [browsers] is the [hash] of the entire certificate in [DER] form. %%information [{$pagename}] is __NOT part of the [Certificate]__ but rather the [hash] of the [DER] [encoded|Encoding] [certificate] %% In [OpenSSL] the "-fingerprint" option takes the [hash] of the [DER] [encoded|Encoding] [certificate]. This is commonly called a "[fingerprint]". Because of the nature of [message-Digests] the fingerprint of a certificate is unique to that certificate and two certificates with the same [fingerprint] can be considered to be the same. !! [Example] [{$pagename}] [Certificate Fingerprint/certificate-fingerprint.png]\\ We see: * [SHA-256]: 63 2B 11 99 44 40 17 DF 37 FC C3 DF 0F 3D 15 is the [SHA256] [hash] sum of [ASN.1] binary ([DER]) * [SHA-1]: 23 96 4A 13 68 93 9E DA E4 38 35 AC E3 2A 36 is the [SHA-1] [hash] sum of [ASN.1] binary ([DER]) [{$pagename}] are mostly used for identifying the [certificates] (for organising them) !! Use of [{$pagename}] One application of these [{$pagename}] is to validate [Extended Validation Certificate]. In this case, the [SHA-1] [{$pagename}] of the [root EV CA certificate|Trust Anchor] is hard-coded in the browser. Note that the * [{$pagename}] the fingerprint of the [Trust Anchor] * [{$pagename}] has to match exactly the [Trust Anchors] shipped with the version of the [browser] compiled with those values. !! More Information There might be more information for this subject on one of the following: [{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]