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    Certificate authorities issue digital certificates that verify a user's identity and allow for encrypted communication, and maintain certificate revocation lists of certificates that are no longer valid due to compromise, updates, or expiration. The certificate authority verifies a user's identity, the user generates a public/private key pair, and the public key is placed in the user's certificate; certificate revocation lists are accessed to check the status of other users' certificates and ensure only valid certificates are used.

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    Certificate authorities issue digital certificates that verify a user's identity and allow for encrypted communication, and maintain certificate revocation lists of certificates that are no longer valid due to compromise, updates, or expiration. The certificate authority verifies a user's identity, the user generates a public/private key pair, and the public key is placed in the user's certificate; certificate revocation lists are accessed to check the status of other users' certificates and ensure only valid certificates are used.

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    Authorising, Storing, and Revoking Digital Certificates

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    Certificate authorities issue digital certificates that verify a user's identity and allow for encrypted communication, and maintain certificate revocation lists of certificates that are no longer valid due to compromise, updates, or expiration. The certificate authority verifies a user's identity, the user generates a public/private key pair, and the public key is placed in the user's certificate; certificate revocation lists are accessed to check the status of other users' certificates and ensure only valid certificates are used.

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    Lists revoked

    Entity issuing digital


    certificates
    certificates

    Reasons: CA or public
    Public or private (e.g.,
    key compromised,
    Verisign)
    updating, expiration,
    reissuing
    User provides info, CA Certificate Revocation
    verifies identity Certificate Authority List
    Accessed to check
    certificate status of
    User generates public other users
    and private keys

    Viewed or downloaded
    Authorising, Storing,
    Public key sent to CA, directly into user's Web
    and Revoking Digital
    inserted into the browser
    Certificates
    certificate

    Publicly accessible
    Subordinate entity directory
    handling some CA tasks

    Registration Authority Contains certificates


    Processes certificate and CRLs published by a
    Certificate Repository
    requests, authenticates CA
    users

    Often available to all


    users through a Web
    browser interface

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