| dc:description | A document with a digital signature. Such a certificate is used to authenticate identity. Digital certificates are often signed by a trusted third party known as a certificate authority. (ODotI) |
| dc:description | A data structure signed with a public key digital signature stating that a specified public key belongs to someone or something with a specified identification. (ISD) |
| dc:description | A certificate authority (CA) issues an encrypted digital certificate containing the applicant's public key and a variety of other identification information. The CA makes its own public key readily available through print publicity or perhaps on the Internet. The recipient of an encrypted message uses the CA's public key to decode the digital certificate attached to the message, verifies it as issued by the CA and then obtains the sender's public key and identification information held within the certificate. With this information, the recipient can send an encrypted reply. (Webopedia) |
Class(CertificateData partial restriction(credentialVerifiedBy someValuesFrom(SigningWithCertificate))
DigitalSignatureData)