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Glossary

This document aims to enumerate and clarify alternative terms that have been used for the same concept in the OpenPGP space, as well as to document terminology specific to OpenPGP CA.

  • Authentication
  • Bridge: Two instances of OpenPGP CA mark each other as (scoped) trusted introducers, which means that users in both organizations see each other as authenticated
  • Certification ("Signature" on a certificate)
  • Key / OpenPGP Key (Certificate)
  • Key creation workflow: centralized/decentralized
  • OpenPGP
  • Revocation certificate
  • Trust signature ("tsig"), a speficic type of certification for a certificate, which marks that key as a "trusted introducer" (i.e. the party that creates the trust signature signals that they will trust certifications that the "trusted introducer" makes on certificates)