The root certificate is a part of public key infrastructure and is issued by the trusted root certificate authority. A certificate authority issues multiple certificates in a tree structure, and the root certificate is on the top of this structure. The private key of a root certificate signs other certificates. All other certificates (intermediate certificates) rely on the trustworthiness of a root certificate. All operating systems and browsers have trusted root Certificates.

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