Talk:Root certificate

Is a root certificate and an SSL certificate the same?

TLS
This page mentions TLS which is "Transport Layer Security". I did note that the isn't an entry in wikipedia for TLS; however, there is an entry for Transport Layer Security. Should that be hyper linked to the TLS entry? Just a thought. PS: It is currently Nov. 4, 2006 20:28 GMT.

This seems to have been done. JamesHDavenport (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC) james h davenport

Certificate Chain
Should we move some of this information into a section called, "certificate chain"? Dprust 15:42, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Subordinate certification authorities
This should be probably mentioned in the article:

""Subordinate certification authorities" are a little known device: The root CAs in your browser can delegate permission to issue certificates to an unlimited amount of subordinate CAs (SCA) just by signing their certificate, not by borrowing their precious private key to them. Even Wikipedia doesn't mention this, nor do any public transparent listings exist of all the sub-CAs that your browser trusts every day."

- http://patrol.psyced.org/

--Tgr (talk) 08:49, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

It's implicitly there by talking of a tree structure, but I've made it more explicit. JamesHDavenport (talk) 15:26, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Confusing sentences in opening paragraph
The third sentence in the opening paragraph reads: Either it has matched Authority Key Identifier with Subject Key Identifier, in some cases there is no Authority Key identifier, then Issuer string should match with Subject string (RFC5280).

This is ungrammatical. I would fix it but I don't know what is intended.

The next sentence begins with "For instance, " but it's not clear what it's an instance of: For instance, the PKIs supporting HTTPS for secure web browsing and electronic signature schemes depend on a set of root certificates.

--Jer ome (talk) 19:01, 7 May 2019 (UTC)