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Certificate authority
An issuer of digital certificates, the cyberspace equivalent of identity cards. A certificate authority may be an external issuing company or an internal company authority that has installed itsown server for issuing and verifying certificates. A certificate authority is responsible for providing and assigningthe unique strings of numbers that make up the 搆eys?used in digital certificates for authentication and to encryptand decrypt sensitive or confidential online information.
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