A recipient who acts in reliance on a certificate and digital signature. (See also recipient; rely or reliance (on a certificate and digital signature))
a person, entity, or organization that relies on or uses a Entrust
Receiver of a digitally signed or encrypted message. Based on the sender's certificate, its issuer data, certificate policy and other information decides whether to accept or reject the message. Bound to thoroughly verify each signature by certificate policies and the law. In practice, due to inconvenience of such strict approach, popular computer programs accept signatures and certificates mainly automatically,.
The Relying Party is a person or agency who has received information that includes a certificate and a digital signature verifiable with reference to a public key listed in the certificate, and is in a position to rely on them. The Relying Party relies on the validity of the binding of the Subscriber's name to a public key. The Relying Party is responsible for deciding whether or how to check the validity of the certificate by checking the appropriate certificate status information. The Relying Party can use the certificate to verify the integrity of a digitally-signed message to identify the creator of the message, or to establish confidential communications with the holder of the certificate. A Relying Party may use information in the certificate to determine the suitability of the certificate for a particular use. The Relying Party is the owner of the application.
A system entity that is making a decision contingent upon information or advice from another system entity is a relying party; e.g., a system entity that is relying upon various SAML assertions about some other party(ies), made by yet other party(ies).
A user or agent (e.g., a client or server) who relies on the data in a certificate in making decisions.
An individual or entity, which receives a digitally signed message and wishes to rely on the contents of that message as binding the signer.
A recipient of a certificate who acts in reliance on that certificate and/or digital signatures verified using that certificate.
A recipient of a digitally signed message who is authorized to rely on a certificate to verify the digital signature on a message.