[Tech Topic] Client and Server Certificates

 

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Server Certificates are basically used to identify a server.
The server certificates serve the rationale of encrypting and decrypting the content.

Client certificates as the name implies are clearly used to identify a client to a respective user, which means authenticating the client to the server.

The client certificate is not at all used for data encryption or decryption because it is for user’s identity

Both SSL certificate (server) and client certificate encompass the “Issued to” section. Here, for SSL certificate the “Issued to” section’s value will be the hostname for which it has to be issued and for the client certificate, it will be the user identity or the user name.

it is clear that both server and client certificates are different as the earlier identifies the server and the later identifies the user

they both have keys named as public and private keys. Server and client certificate both contain a public and a private key.