I guess you would call that "issuing a certificate." Certificates -- the entire certificate -- are signed. They include a public key.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 8:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued On 5/04/2018 1:01 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Keys are not signed, at least not generally. > > Messages may be signed; a process that involves two keys. What do you call it then when I generate a key pair and submit the public key to a CA, they perform some form of verification and return a certificate to use with TLS etc? I would have said the certificate includes a signed public key, but I admit I am far from an expert on this stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
