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(PKI). Public-key infrastructure uses one or more third parties, known as certificate authorities, to certify ownership of key pairs to prove that a public key is authentic, and has not been tampered with or replaced by a malicious third party. | (PKI). | ||
Public-key infrastructure uses one or more third parties, known as certificate authorities, to certify ownership of key pairs to prove that a public key is authentic, and has not been tampered with or replaced by a malicious third party. | |||
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Revision as of 15:57, 20 August 2013
(PKI).
Public-key infrastructure uses one or more third parties, known as certificate authorities, to certify ownership of key pairs to prove that a public key is authentic, and has not been tampered with or replaced by a malicious third party.