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Such mechanism is used in emails (e.g. with PGP), or for authenticating web sites (using server certificates that contain their public key and other proof of their alleged identity, because it has been signed by a third-party using exchanges based also an asymetric cryptography with key pairs for the site owner and key pairs for the third-party signatory).
Such mechanism is used in emails (e.g. with PGP), or for authenticating web sites (using server certificates that contain their public key and other proof of their alleged identity, because it has been signed by a third-party using exchanges based also an asymetric cryptography with key pairs for the site owner and key pairs for the third-party signatory).

Wikimedia also uses such mechanism for [[OTRS]] (authenticating the licencing agreement and the opposable assertions made by the publisher that he owns the legal rights on the published content).


==See also==
==See also==