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A digital certificate authenticates the Web credentials of the sender and lets the recipient of an encrypted message know that the data is from a trusted source (or a sender who claims to be one). A digital certificate is issued by a certification authority (CA).
Digital certificates are used with self-signatures and message encryption.
(source: http://www.techopedia.com/definition/1775/digital-certificate)
