On 5/04/2018 1:01 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
Keys are not signed, at least not generally.
Messages may be signed; a process that involves two keys.
What do you call it then when I generate a key pair and submit the
public key to a CA, they perform some form of verification and return a
certificate to use with TLS etc?
I would have said the certificate includes a signed public key, but I
admit I am far from an expert on this stuff.
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Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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