Chapter 10. Multiple Certificates per Entity

This chapter discusses the situation in which a single PKI entity holds multiple valid certificates, and gives a number of reasons that such a situation not only might be possible, but desirable. The concept of different uses for key pairs is presented; some attention is also given to the relationship between key pairs and certificates.

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