EMERGING TRENDS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
CLOUD COMPUTING
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Question
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key pair
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digital certificate
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cipher
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plaintext
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Detailed explanation-1: -A public key certificate can be thought of as the digital equivalent of a passport. It is issued by a trusted organization and provides identification for the bearer. A trusted organization that issues public key certificates is known as a Certificate Authority (CA). The CA can be likened to a notary public.
Detailed explanation-2: -Public key. The receiver of the certificate uses the public key to decipher encrypted text that is sent by the certificate owner to verify its identity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Websites use digital certificates for domain validation to show they are trusted and authentic. Digital certificates are used in secure email to identify one user to another and may also be used for electronic document signing. The sender digitally signs the email, and the recipient verifies the signature.