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subordinate certificate authority

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-004115

In a hierarchical public key infrastructure (PKI), a certificate authority (CA) whose certificate signing key is certified by another CA, and whose activities are constrained by that other CA.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-004115
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesCNSSI 4009-2022; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-004115",
  "term": "subordinate certificate authority",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "In a hierarchical public key infrastructure (PKI), a certificate authority (CA) whose certificate signing key is certified by another CA, and whose activities are constrained by that other CA.",
  "references": [
    "CNSSI 4009-2022",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/subordinate-certificate-authority/"
}

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