CompTIA: Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) Exam Prep

Answer: A - A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that is responsible for issuing and maintaining digital certificates.

Key Takeaway: A certificate authority (CA) is an authority that issues and manages security credentials and public keys for message encryption. It checks with a registration authority (RA) to verify information provided by the requestor of a digital certificate. If the RA verifies the requestor's information, the CA can then issue a certificate. Depending on the public key infrastructure implementation, the certificate includes the owner's public key, the expiration date of the certificate, the owner's name, and other information about the public key owner.