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Glossary of Security Terms: Certificate Authority
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.
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Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape.
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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- Block cipher mode of operation
- 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
- Digital certificate
- DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
- Encryption
- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- Hash
- HMAC
- HPKP
- HSTS
- HTTPS
- Key
- MitM
- OWASP
- Preflight request
- Public-key cryptography
- Reporting directive
- Robots.txt
- Same-origin policy
- Session Hijacking
- SQL Injection
- Symmetric-key cryptography
- TOFU
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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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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