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Typical Certificates

As we shall see, one of the most common uses of CA-signed X.509 certificates is in Web Commerce, where they are normally called site certificates. Here are two examples:
Text of site certificate from amazon.com
Text of site certificate from www.ansett.com.au, somewhat historical now:-)
NB: Web browsers normally are configured to trust a small set of CAs (or certificate issuers) -- either by configuration (see Preferences), or (in earlier versions) established at compile-time, see later.
 
Lecture 18: Encryption #3 -- Practical Encryption Copyright © 2003 P.Scott, La Trobe University Bendigo.

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