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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.

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 →
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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.

Outgoing relationships

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

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.