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Public Key Cryptography for Certificates

The public-private key pairs used in public key cryptography play an important role in the use of digital certificates. The procedure for signing a certificate by a certificate authority (CA) and then verifying the signature, by the recipient, works as described in the topics in this chapter. The topics in this chapter also describe how to use self-signed certificates either automatically generated by the system or ones that you manually create.

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