October 2019
Beginner
426 pages
10h 44m
English
As discussed in the previous section, a certificate is responsible for securing the communication channel between a website and a browser. As such, the certificate, also known as a digital certificate, is an electronic document that ensures that entities can exchange data securely on the internet. Usually, certificates are issued by a secure entity known as a Certificate Authority (CA) as shown in Figure 6.11. This infrastructure uses Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which uses certificates to prove the ownership of the public key:

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