What is used to store and distribute a public key?

The correct answer is A. digital certificate. When you use SSL to encrypt web traffic, you are using asymmetric encryption, which involves a private key and a public key. The public key is provided to anyone who wants to access the web server, and the private key is kept secret, usually by the web server that you are trying

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Adigital certificate
Bdigital signature
Cdigital lock
Ddigital envelope

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D
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When you use SSL to encrypt web traffic, you are using asymmetric encryption, which involves a private key and a public key. The public key is provided to anyone who wants to access the web server, and the private key is kept secret, usually by the web server that you are trying to protect. A common method to distribute a public key is to use a digital certificate.

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#Digital certificates#Public key infrastructure#Cryptography

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