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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know

by Imran Ahmad
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Public Key Infrastructure

Asymmetric encryption is used to implement PKI. PKI is one of the most popular and reliable ways to manage encryption keys for an organization. All the participants trust a central trusting authority called a CA. CAs verify the identity of individuals and organizations and then issue them digital certificates (a digital certificate contains a copy of a person or organization's public key and its identity), verifying that the public key associated with that individual or organization actually belongs to that individual or organization.

The way it works is that the CA asks a user to prove their identity, with different standards followed for individuals and organizations. This could involve simply verifying ownership ...

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ISBN: 9781789801217