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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'':

The Trusted root [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Certificate_Authority_.28CA.29|certificate authority]] (CA) refers to the issuer of a [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Digital_certificates|certificate]], where the certificate is the basis of trust. 

# It represents the root of a heirarchy of one or more CAs and

 

# 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.  

:The trust between people and trust between computers using certificates share similarities in that both rely on a third party to establish and verify the trust. In the case of people, a government agency or other institution may issue a form of identification ID such as a driver's license or passport, and others can use that ID to verify the person's identity. Similarly, when computers communicate using HTTPS, a [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Certificate_Authority_.28CA.29|certificate authority (CA)]] issues a [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Digital_certificates|digital certificate]] that verifies the identity of the website, and the user's computer can use that certificate to verify the website's identity before sending sensitive information. In both cases, the trust is based on the assurance that a reliable third party has verified the identity of the party in question.

 

The Trusted root certificate is ''usually'' [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Distribution.2Finstallation_of_root_CA_certificates|installed]] in a [[Trusted_Root_Certificate_Authority_(CA)#Trusted_Root_CA_Folder|special folder]] by most of the operating systems and browsers.

== Certificate Authority (CA) ==

== Certificate Authority (CA) ==