Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 699)

AT-S63 Management Software Menus Interface User’s Guide
Section VII: Management Security 699
To verify the authenticity of a server, the server has a public and private
key. The public key is given to the user.
SSL uses certificates for authentication. A certificate binds a public key to
a server name. A certification authority (CA) issues certificates after
checking that a public key belongs to its claimed owner. There are several
agencies that are trusted to issue certificates. Individual browsers have
approved Root CAs that are built in to the browser.