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Glossary of Security Terms: Certificate Authority
by Mozilla ContributorsAugust 14th, 2020
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Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. Web browsers come preloaded with a list of certificate authorities trusted to issue digital certificates. This certifies that an organization that requested a digital certificate (e.g., Mozilla Corporation) is authorized to request a certificate for the subject named in the certificate. The list is published under the CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license under the terms of Mozilla's Credentialed CA Certificate Authority (CA) license.Company Mentioned
A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that signs digital certificates and their associated public keys. This certifies that an organization that requested a digital certificate (e.g., Mozilla Corporation) is authorized to request a certificate for the subject named in the certificate (e.g., mozilla.org).
Web browsers come preloaded with a list of certificate authorities trusted to issue digital certificates.
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- Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Certificate_authority
- Published under Open CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license
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