HP LaserJet Enterprise MFP - CA Certificates for commercial Email services (white paper)

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This certificate was issued by Sample Root Certificate Authority to smtp.sample.com.
A CA Certificate is essentially the same as an identity certificate, with Subject and Issuer fields
having the same significance. A sample CA certificate is shown below:
Figure 9: Certificate Details – Issuer and Subject fields
The Subject of this certificate is Sample Root Certificate Authority, the organization to which the
certificate was issued and that will use the certificate. The Issuer of the certificate is also
Sample Root Certificate Authority – i.e. the organization that uses the certificate is also the
issuer of the certificate. The organization Sample Root Certificate Authority is what is known as
a Root Certificate Authority. It is the root of a hierarchy of certificates, an idea that we will
explain later.
The most important parts of any certificate, whether it is a CA or an identity certificate, are the
public and private encryption keys. These matched keys have the important properties that a)