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certificate user
(I) A system entity that depends on the validity of information
(such as another entity's public key value) provided by a digital
certificate. (See: relying party.)
(O) "An entity that needs to know, with certainty, the public key
of another entity." [X509]
(C) The system entity may be a human being or an organization, or
a device or process under the control of a human or an
organization.
(D) ISDs SHOULD NOT use this term as a synonym for the "subject"
of a certificate.
