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A public-key infrastructure (PKI) is a set of hardware, software, people, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates. In cryptography, a PKI is an arrangement that binds public keys with respective user identities by means of a certificate authority (CA). There are three main categories of PKI: Web / SSL certs, corporate networks, and Government ID / ePassport.

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What is the role of a CA server in a PKI?

I'm confused how the CA server helps with the digital signature and the PKI workflow. Here's an example topology: A and B are the 2 devices using PKI to authenticate each other for VPN, and then there …
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CA certificate and Local certificate

There is something which is bothering me when i think about the CA cert and Local cert. Below are my queries which pertains to juniper but may be generic as well. 1) "request security pki ca-certifi …