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Public key certificate

In cryptography, a public-key certificate, also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate, is an electronic document used to prove the valid attribution of a public key to the identity of its holder. The certificate includes the public key and information about it, information about the identity of its owner (called the subject), and the…

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Chain of trust

Types of certificate

Common fields

Usage in the European Union

Certificate authorities

Root programs

Revocation

Website security

Standards

  • NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

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  • IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
  • RFC Request for Comments

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Public key certificate

Nodes103
Edges102
Triples6
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019417
Components1

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certificate certificates subject web name key root trust use security may public public-key domain tls server used information authority valid

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CMPinstance ofwhich needs to be transferred using a secure certificate enrollment protocol0.80text
ESTinstance ofwhich needs to be transferred using a secure certificate enrollment protocol0.80text
or ACMEinstance ofwhich needs to be transferred using a secure certificate enrollment protocol0.80text
Chromeinstance ofmajor browsers0.80text
Firefox generally offered users a visual indication of the legal identity when a site presented an EV certificateinstance ofmajor browsers0.80text
for company intranetsinstance ofare free to extend the list for special purposes0.80text

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