Encryption Certificate

A certificate containing a public key that can encrypt or decrypt electronic messages, files, documents, or data transmissions, or establish or exchange a session key for these same purposes. Key management sometimes refers to the process of storing protecting and escrowing the private component of the key pair associated with the encryption certificate.


See CNSSI 4009-2015 (CNSSI 1300) for more information.

A certificate containing a public key that is used to encrypt electronic messages, files, documents, or data transmissions, or to establish or exchange a session key for  these same purposes.


See NIST SP 800-32 under Encryption Certificate for more information.

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