precertificate

plural precertificates

1. A special type of SSL/TLS certificate used in Certificate Transparency (CT) for logging purposes.

   The CA sends the precertificate to logs

   2025 January 5, Wikipedia contributors, “Certificate Transparency”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

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   To do so, the CA submits a Precertificate that the log can use to create an entry that will be valid against the issued certificate.

   2013 June, B. Laurie, A. Langley, E. Kasper, “RFC 6962: Certificate Transparency”, in IETF Datatracker, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), page 9

   Alternatively, before signing the certificate, the CA creates a precertificate that binds the same data in a different format as the final certificate.

   2022, Jingqiang Lin, Qiang Tang, editors, Applied Cryptography in Computer and Communications: Second EAI International Conference, AC3 2022, Virtual Event, May 14-15, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; 448), Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 129