A certificate containing a Certification Authority's (CA's) public key. Network entities use this public key to verify certificates signed with the CA's private key.
Identifies the certification authority (CA) that issues server and client authentication certificates to the servers and clients that request these certificates. Because it contains a public key used in digital signatures, it is also referred to as a signature certificate. If the CA is a root authority, the CA certificate may be referred to as a root certificate. Also sometimes known as a site certificate.
A certificate that identifies a certificate authority. See also certificate authority (CA), subordinate CA, root CA.
certificate that attests to the identity of a certificate authority. A CA certificate cannot be associated with a key pair.
A Certificate issued as part of the set-up and activation of the Certification Authority that contains the public key that corresponds to the CA Private Signing Key that the Certification Authority uses to create certificates.
The CA's certificate. This certificate is used to verify signature on certificates issued by the CA. GSI typically stores a given CA certificate in /etc/grid-security/certificates/hash, where hash is the hash code of the CA identity.