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Public Key Infrastructure
Maneesh Sutar
2024-07-14
2024-09-28
Public Key Infrastructure

Public Key Infrastructure

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The system which provides a way to securely share public keys of websites/orgs over the internet.
This system generates and verifies public key certificates with a standard format like x_509

Certificate Requests

Organisations (subjects) can generate a certificate request, which will be sent to a Certificate Authority for verification.

Certificate Authority

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An organisation who has rights to certify the certificate requests.

Names of some of the CAs: IdenTrust , DigiCert Group, Let's Encrypt