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Superior Certification Authority

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In a hierarchical PKI, a Certification Authority who has certified the certificate signature key of another CA, and who constrains the activities of that CA.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Restricted75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

Cui70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Superior Certification Authorities
possessive: Superior Certification Authority's
pluralpossessive: Superior Certification Authorities'

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