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7.2.4 Authentication
Authentication is a mechanism used to verify the identity of a user or a computer.
With authentication, the sender and the receiver can conrm each other’s identity.
In SSL, the client needs to make sure that the server is authenticated by a trusted
third-party organization. On the other hand, for some applications, the server may
not need to authenticate the client. Server authentication is commonly done through
a certicate service, which will be described in next section.
7.3 Certicate Services
In Windows Server, Certicate Services is the Microsoft implementation of Public
Key Infrastructure (PKI). In general, PKI certicate management software is
designed to accomplish tasks such ...