Month: June 2021
What is a digital certificate? – Digital Certificates and Certification Authorities
10.1 What is a digital certificate? Remember from Chapter 7, Public-Key Cryptography, that public keys, more precisely their numerical representation and their relation to a certain entity, must be authentic. Otherwise, an attacker, Eve, might exchange her own public key with Alice’s and could read Alice’s messages. Digital signatures, on the other hand, create the…
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