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certification
(I) Information system usage: Technical evaluation (usually made
in support of an accreditation action) of an information system's
security features and other safeguards to establish the extent to
which the system's design and implementation meet specified
security requirements. [FP102] (See: accreditation.)
(I) Digital certificate usage: The act or process of vouching for
the truth and accuracy of the binding between data items in a
certificate. (See: certify.)
(I) Public key usage: The act or process of vouching for the
ownership of a public key by issuing a public-key certificate that
binds the key to the name of the entity that possesses the
matching private key. In addition to binding a key to a name, a
public-key certificate may bind those items to other restrictive
or explanatory data items. (See: X.509 public-key certificate.)
(O) SET usage: "The process of ascertaining that a set of
requirements or criteria has been fulfilled and attesting to that
fact to others, usually with some written instrument. A system
that has been inspected and evaluated as fully compliant with the
SET protocol by duly authorized parties and process would be said
to have been certified compliant." [SET2]
