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Offline HyperspeedTopic starter

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Web browser - CA Certificates ?
« on: May 07, 2006, 11:47:34 PM »
Can anyone tell me what a CA certificate is and why they need to be uploaded into browsers (with some browsers having a few already in there)?

Are they like concert tickets?

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Re: Web browser - CA Certificates ?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2006, 12:07:40 AM »
CA is Certificate Authority.    Basicly, by trusting the CA (by installing the CA certificate), you trust any certificates it issues.  You don't have to do this, but you'll get a warning saying that the root/CA isn't trusted.

More (technical/correct) info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority

Edit: You might also want to look up PKI to see how everything goes together.  SSL keys for server validation are jsut one small piece of it.
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