A certificate is often used to prove the identity of a server. The certificate will contain information such as the subject and issuer of the certificate. It will also contain the validation date of the certificate. A certificate is often exported to an external cert file which is transferred over the internet. We will often see its use in SSL communication which provides secure communication between two entities.In this post, we will show how to read the data from an external certificate file and generate a X509 certificate object with the data. This object can then be used to conduct other o...