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Cross-Certificate

nounid 2077·updated May 9, 2026
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A certificate used to establish a trust relationship between two Certification Authorities.

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

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

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Cross-Certificates
possessive
Cross-Certificate's
pluralpossessive
Cross-Certificates'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
A certificate used to establish a trust relationship between two Certification Authorities.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
A certificate used to establish a trust relationship between two Certification Authorities.
NIST SP 800-321 senseview framework →
§1
A certificate used to establish a trust relationship between two Certification Authorities.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A certificate used to establish a trust relationship between two Certification Authorities.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
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