The authority key identifier extension provides a means of identifying the public key corresponding to the private key used to sign a certificate. This extension is used where an issuer has multiple signing keys.

    Usually, key identifier is the result of some hash function applied to a issuer's public key. The obtained «Fingerprint» is later used to identify the public key which certificate was signed with.

Declaration

Description

    For more detailed information about this extension see AuthorityKeyIdentifierExtension class description.