Self-certifying key
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Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...

 a self-certifying key system (or implicit key system) is one in which both the public key and the certificate
Public key certificate
In cryptography, a public key certificate is an electronic document which uses a digital signature to bind a public key with an identity — information such as the name of a person or an organization, their address, and so forth...

are combined as one piece of information. The primary advantage of this system is that it reduces the overhead of having a separate public key and
certificate sent with each message.
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