Certificate Authority
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A Certificate Authority is an organizational entity that issues public key certificates.
- AKA: Certification Authority.
- See: Cryptography, Digital Signature, Trusted Third Party, Public Key Infrastructure, Verisign.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/certificate_authority Retrieved:2015-1-12.
- In cryptography, a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity that issues digital certificates. A digital certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named subject of the certificate. This allows others (relying parties) to rely upon signatures or on assertions made by the private key that corresponds to the certified public key. In this model of trust relationships, a CA is a trusted third party - trusted both by the subject (owner) of the certificate and by the party relying upon the certificate. Many public-key infrastructure (PKI) schemes feature CAs.