certificate
In cryptography, a public key certificate, also
known as a digital certificate or identity
certificate, is an electronic document used to
prove the ownership of a public key.
[1] The
certificate includes information about the
key, information about the identity of its
owner (called the subject), and the digital
signature of an entity that has verified the
certificate
'
s contents (called the issuer). If
the signature is valid, and the software
