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PKI Certificates - a Source of Confusion?

Overview There is a lot of misleading information on the internet about certificates, public and private keys, digital signatures, etc. - when and how you use them. This white paper sets the record using terminologyfor the non-technical person.

If you look inside MS Outlook at the security tab or you visit any of your favorite PKI or CA vendors you will be educated in the need to understand the certificate. The pressure to understand the certificate is so intense that you may even find statements such as, “You sign the document with your certificate”, which any expert will tell you is technically just plain wrong. So what’s going wrong, and why is the situation so confused?

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	ArticSoft Limited	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	PKI, Digital Signatures

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