Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
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the framework of certificate authorities, digital certificates, and public/private key cryptography used to establish trust
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purpose
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ensures a given public key belongs to one, and only one, organization — issuing Digital Certificates so that two organizations never share a public/private key pair (which would let them read each other's confidential information)
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