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Self-signed certificate

In cryptography and computer security, self-signed certificates are public key certificates that are not issued by a certificate authority (CA). These self-signed certificates are easy to make and do not cost money. However, they do not provide any trust value.

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Self-signed certificate

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples33
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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Self-signed certificate

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related to Trust issues · 14
Self-signed certificate → CA, CA-based PKI, CA/Browser Forum, Common Access Cards, Developers, ID, In, Individual, PKI, Some CAs, The, The CA, There, US
related to Benefits · 9
Self-signed certificate → Adobe Reader, Apple's Keychain, CRL, Java's, OCSP, OpenSSL, Self-signed, Their, They
related to Uses · 5
Self-signed certificate → Another, Encrypting File System, For, Microsoft Windows, Self-signed
related to Name confusion · 4
Self-signed certificate → CA, RFC, The, While
is a · 1
Self-signed certificate → same as the one that was formerly trusted

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Self-signed certificateis asame as the one that was formerly trusted0.90text
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsSelf-signed0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsOpenSSL0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsJava's0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsAdobe Reader0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsApple's Keychain0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsThey0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsTheir0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsCRL0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to BenefitsOCSP0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to Name confusionThe0.60section
Self-signed certificaterelated to Name confusionCA0.60section

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