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Managing the Private Key and Certificate

Asymetric Asymmetric encryption makes use of a Private Key and Certificate/Public Key that can be created in a number of ways:

  • Users can create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and ask their Certificate Authority (CA) to sign the CSR and to receive an X.509 certificate. The Private Key or X.509 Certificate allow to derive the Public Key.
  • User can create a CA-signed X.509 Certificate, see JS7 - How to create X.509 SSL TLS CertificatesEncryption Keys.
  • Users can create a Private Key and Certificate as explained in the next chapter.

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