What does a digital certificate primarily bind?
A CISSP practice question covering Domain 3: Security Architecture and Engineering. Try answering before reading the explanation below.
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Why "A public key to an identity, signed by a trusted CA" is the right answer
X.509 certificates cryptographically bind a public key to an identity attested by a Certificate Authority. Symmetric session keys are negotiated separately (e.g., via TLS handshake). The other options describe authentication and ARP.
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