X.509 Public Key Certificate

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A digital certificate containing a public key for entity and a name for the entity, together with some other information that is rendered unforgeable by the digital signature of the certification authority that issued the certificate, encoded in the format defined in the ISO/ITU-T X.509 standard.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Credential90%rule-basedr:entity.credential.cert.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: X.509 Public Key Certificates
possessive: X.509 Public Key Certificate's
pluralpossessive: X.509 Public Key Certificates'

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