The Trusted root certificate authority (CA) refers to the issuer of a certificate which is ''usually'' pre-installed in a special folder on most of the operating systems and browsers. This certificate is the basis of ''trust'': It allows a user's device to trust a) the certificate presented from Bob (an individual, organization, or computer system) and, in turn, b) trust Bob's ''identity''.
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The Trusted root certificate authority (CA) refers to the issuer of a certificate, where the certificate is ''usually'' installed in a special folder on most of the operating systems and browsers. This certificate is the basis of ''trust'':
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# It represents the root of a heirarchy of one or more CAs and
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# it allows a user's device to trust a) the certificate presented from stranger Sally (an individual, organization, or computer system) and, in turn, b) trust Sally's ''identity'', so she is not a total stranger.