COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
CRYPTOGRAPHY AND ENCRYPTION
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server
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personal
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content signing
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root
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Detailed explanation-1: -In a typical public-key infrastructure (PKI) scheme, the certificate issuer is a certificate authority (CA), usually a company that charges customers to issue certificates for them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Key roles of a certificate authority As an integral part of PKI, a CA plays multiple crucial roles: issues digital certificates; helps establish trust between communicating entities over the internet; verifies domain names and organizations to validate their identities; and.
Detailed explanation-3: -Root certificates are self-signed (and it is possible for a certificate to have multiple trust paths, say if the certificate was issued by a root that was cross-signed) and form the basis of an X. 509-based public key infrastructure (PKI).
Detailed explanation-4: -A PKI certificate offers proof of identity to a requesting entity, which is verified by a third party and works like a digital passport or driver’s license. The PKI certificate will contain the following: Distinguished name (DN) of the owner. Owner’s public key.