Chain of Trust
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the lineage showing how a certificate's issuing authority itself received its own authority — tracing from the certificate, up through any intermediate certificate authorities, to a root certificate authority
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a certificate might be issued by an intermediate authority, which itself was issued a certificate by a root certificate authority; root certificate authorities tend to have very long-lived certificates (sometimes decades), since they don't do much day-to-day issuing themselves
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