Certificate authority (CA)
Türkçe: Sertifika otoritesi (CA)
An organisation trusted by browsers and operating systems that verifies and digitally signs certificates.
// EXPLANATION
Browsers ship with trusted root certificates; a site certificate chains to such a root through an intermediate authority. If a CA is compromised, every certificate it signed becomes suspect.
// ALSO KNOWN AS
certificate authorityCA
// RELATED TERMS
Digital certificateAn electronic document that binds a public key to an identity (for example a domain name) and is signed by a trusted authority.
Digital signatureA method of proving who a message came from and that it was not altered, using a value produced with a private key and verified with a public key.
SSL/TLSThe family of protocols that encrypts communication over the internet and verifies the identity of the other side; the basis of the browser padlock.
