Certificate Chains
Validate trust paths.
What Is a Certificate Chain?
A certificate chain (or chain of trust) is the ordered list of certificates linking a server's leaf certificate up to a trusted root certificate.
Each certificate is signed by the one above it.
The Three Links
A typical chain has three parts:
- Leaf (end-entity) certificate for the actual server.
- Intermediate certificate(s) that signed the leaf.
- Root certificate that signed the intermediate.
All lessons in this course
- Public Key Infrastructure
- Certificate Authorities
- Certificate Chains
- Managing Certificates