Data by which a third party certifies that a public key belongs to its claimed owner.
Data issued by a certificate authority that binds a public key to its owner's information, used for things like verifying a website's identity. It also carries an expiration date and revocation information, and a browser checks the certificate's signature, expiration, and revocation status (via CRL or OCSP) before establishing a secure connection.
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