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Cybersecurityknowledge~10 mins

Certificate authorities and trust chains in Cybersecurity - Interactive Code Practice

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Practice - 5 Tasks
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easy

Complete the sentence to explain what a Certificate Authority (CA) does.

Cybersecurity
A Certificate Authority (CA) is an entity that [1] digital certificates to verify identities.
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Aissues
Bdestroys
Cignores
Dhides
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Common Mistakes
Choosing verbs that imply removing or hiding certificates.
2fill in blank
medium

Complete the sentence to describe the trust chain in certificates.

Cybersecurity
A trust chain starts from a root CA and goes through [1] CAs before reaching the end-entity certificate.
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Aunrelated
Bexpired
Cinvalid
Dintermediate
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Common Mistakes
Confusing intermediate with unrelated or invalid CAs.
3fill in blank
hard

Fix the error in the statement about certificate validation.

Cybersecurity
To validate a certificate, the system checks if it was [1] by a trusted CA in the chain.
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Asigned
Bdeleted
Cignored
Dencrypted
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Common Mistakes
Choosing terms unrelated to validation like deleted or ignored.
4fill in blank
hard

Fill both blanks to complete the description of a certificate chain.

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The certificate chain includes the root CA at the top and [1] CAs in the middle, ending with the [2] certificate.
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Aintermediate
Bexpired
Cend-entity
Drevoked
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Common Mistakes
Confusing expired or revoked with intermediate or end-entity.
5fill in blank
hard

Fill all three blanks to explain how trust is established in a certificate chain.

Cybersecurity
Trust is established when the [1] certificate is signed by its [2], and each intermediate CA is signed by its [3].
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Aend-entity
BCA below
CCA above
Droot
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Common Mistakes
Mixing up the direction of signing in the chain.