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  2. DigiNotar - Wikipedia

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    DigiNotar was a Dutch certificate authority, established in 1998 and acquired in January 2011 by VASCO Data Security International, Inc. [1][2] The company was hacked in June 2011 and it issued hundreds of fake certificates, some of which were used for man-in-the-middle attacks on Iranian Gmail users. The company was declared bankrupt in ...

  3. Root certificate - Wikipedia

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    The role of root certificate as in the chain of trust. In cryptography and computer security, a root certificate is a public key certificate that identifies a root certificate authority (CA). [1] Root certificates are self-signed (and it is possible for a certificate to have multiple trust paths, say if the certificate was issued by a root that ...

  4. DigiD - Wikipedia

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    In July 2011, DigiNotar, the company that was providing the certificates used for DigiD under the PKI root-CA PKIoverheid, suffered the theft of hundreds of certificate codes. Although not directly linked to certificates used by DigiD, the result of the hack was that the government lost its trust in certificates issued by the company, both ...

  5. Certificate Transparency - Wikipedia

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    Certificate Transparency (CT) is an Internet security standard for monitoring and auditing the issuance of digital certificates. [1] When an internet user interacts with a website, a trusted third party is needed for assurance that the website is legitimate and that the website's encryption key is valid. This third party, called a certificate ...

  6. Certificate authority - Wikipedia

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    Certificate authority. In cryptography, a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity that stores, signs, and issues digital certificates. A digital certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named subject of the certificate. This allows others (relying parties) to rely upon signatures or on assertions ...

  7. X.509 - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.itu.int /rec /T-REC-X.509. In cryptography, X.509 is an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard defining the format of public key certificates. [ 1 ] X.509 certificates are used in many Internet protocols, including TLS/SSL, which is the basis for HTTPS, [ 2 ] the secure protocol for browsing the web.

  8. Calcium in biology - Wikipedia

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    The Ca 2+ concentration of the vacuole may reach millimolar levels. The most striking use of Ca 2+ ions as a structural element in algae occurs in the marine coccolithophores, which use Ca 2+ to form the calcium carbonate plates, with which they are covered. Calcium is needed to form the pectin in the middle lamella of newly formed cells.

  9. Calcium imaging - Wikipedia

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    Calcium imaging is a microscopy technique to optically measure the calcium (Ca 2+) status of an isolated cell, tissue or medium. Calcium imaging takes advantage of calcium indicators, fluorescent molecules that respond to the binding of Ca 2+ ions by fluorescence properties. Two main classes of calcium indicators exist: chemical indicators and ...