Certification Authorities

 

A Certification Authority (CA) is an independent and trusted third party that issues digital certificates to provide you with an assurance that the public key of an entity truly belongs to that entity. The roles of a CA are:

• On receiving a request for a digital certificate, to verify the identity of the requestor before building, signing and returning the personal certificate

• To provide the CA's own public key in its CA certificate

• To publish lists of certificates that are no longer trusted in a Certificate Revocation List (CRL). For more information, refer to Working with Certificate Revocation Lists and Authority Revocation Lists

 

Parent topic:

Digital certificates

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