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Why We Need Certificates for Secure Communication

NETWORK SECURITY CER
Planted .

Encryption by itself is not enough. With just encryption, you would be talking to a bad server securely. Which is not what we want. Hence, in protocols like TLS, the server provides identification in the form of a certificate which has the server name and trusted CAs.

Updated November 5, 2026 at 22:19 . Thoughts? Email me.
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