Public key infrastructure

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Public key infrastructure (PKI) collectively refers to the software, hardware, users, policies, and institutions that make use of digital certificates based on public-key cryptography.

Public key certificate

• Wikipedia (en) description of Public key certificate
• Microsoft Technet: Understanding public key cryptography

How to register a trusted root certificate

See OpenSSL:X509#How to register a trusted root certificate for details.

See also

• X.509
• RSA
• SSL
• OpenSSL
• Electronic signature

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• Wikipedia (en) description of PKI
• A brief explanation of the basic concepts of PKI in security
• Terms: PKI (public key infrastructure) ; public key infrastructure