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self-signed certificate
(I) A public-key certificate for which the public key bound by the
certificate and the private key used to sign the certificate are
components of the same key pair, which belongs to the signer.
(See: root certificate.)
(C) In a self-signed X.509 public-key certificate, the issuer's DN
is the same as the subject's DN.
