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9.1.3 Certificates, keystores, and key managers
A digital certificate is a digitally signed certificate that uniquely identifies the ownership of an
an entity. Digital certificates are used in the asymmetric key cryptography process that uses a
pair of digital keys, the public and private key pair for the encryption process.
A digital certificate is used to verify the ownership of a key when it is transmitted. The digital
certificate verifies that it really came from the designated source.
The type of information that is stored within a digital certificate is:
Key label
Key size
The subject distinguished name, for example, cn=AJcert1
Name of the issuer
The validity of the certificate
Digital certificates ...