February 5, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
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Certificate Enrollment
nEnrollment is the process of obtaining a certificate from a CA.
1.Alice generates a key pair, creates a message containing a copy of the public key and her identifying information, and signs the message with the private key.
nSigning the message provided “proof-of-possession” (POP) of the private key as well as message integrity
2.CA verifies Alice’s signature on the message