The term 'SSL certificate' has persisted, and will likely persist for the foreseable future, because given the choice of saying 'SSL' or 'X.509' the former tends to roll off the tongue more comfortably. The term SSL certificate became common due to the adoption of the X.509 (one of the ITU X.500 Directory standards) certificate format by Netscape when it designed the original versions of the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol, eons ago, when the world was still young, dinosuars still roamed, and the Internet was a friendly place. What are colloquially known as SSL certificates are technically X.509 certificates. These are elements in what is loosely called a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This is a survival guide to the eye-glazing topic of TLS/SSL and X.509 (SSL) certificates - including self-signed certificates. Survival guides - TLS/SSL and SSL (X.509) Certificates
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