A digital certificate is a data file that binds a publicly known cryptographic key to an organization. A digital certificate contains information about an organization, such as the common name (e.g., mozilla.org), the organization unit (e.g., Mozilla Corporation), and the location (e.g., Mountain View).
Digital certificates are most commonly signed by a certificate authority, attesting to the certificate's authenticity.
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- Block cipher mode of operation
- Certificate authority
- Challenge-response authentication
- Cipher
- Cipher suite
- Ciphertext
- CORS
- CORS-safelisted request header
- CORS-safelisted response header
- Cross-site scripting
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic hash function
- Cryptography
- CSP
- CSRF
- Decryption
- DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
- Encryption
- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- Hash
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- Public-key cryptography
- Reporting directive
- Robots.txt
- Same-origin policy
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- SQL Injection
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- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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- Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Digital_certificate
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