Certificate Chains, And How They Work

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3 min readApr 19, 2020

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Certificate chains are used to be able to verify an end user certificate against a list of intermediaries and a root authority. We are going to explain this in a bit more detail.

The Certificate Authority

In order for an SSL certificate to be trusted, a certificate must have been issued by a certificate authority (CA) that is included in the trusted store…

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