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Digital Certificate

An electronic document issued by a certificate authority that proves the ownership of a public key. Digital certificates are used in TLS/SSL to verify the identity of websites and enable encrypted communications.

Related Terms

Encryption

data-protection

The process of converting plaintext data into an unreadable format (ciphertext) using mathematical algorithms and keys....

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

general

A framework of policies, hardware, software, and procedures for creating, managing, distributing, and revoking digital c...

TLS/SSL

network-security

Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) are cryptographic protocols that provide s...

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