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How Does a Browser Trust a Certificate?
Nov. 1, 2022, midnight | Scott Carter
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How Does a Browser Trust a Certificate?
Scott Carter
Mon, 10/31/2022 - 17:00
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Browsers prevent this type of manipulation by authenticating HTTPS servers using certificates, which are digital documents that bind a public key to an individual subject. The binding is asserted by having a trusted Certification Authority (CA) verify the identity of the certificate owners, via automated and manual checks against qualified databases.
Certificates are digital files and they follow a file format to store information (e.g. …
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