Jump to content

Client certificate

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Conan (talk | contribs) at 23:22, 19 December 2021 (Aready in Category:Cryptography, WP:SUBCAT). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

In cryptography, a client certificate is a type of digital certificate that is used by client systems to make authenticated requests to a remote server.[1] Client certificates play a key role in many mutual authentication designs, providing strong assurances of a requester's identity.

See also

References

  1. ^ Dierks, T.; Rescorla, E. (August 2008). RFC 5246. sec. 7.4.4. doi:10.17487/RFC5246. Retrieved 29 October 2014.