选择题 .  Certificates are ______ documents attesting to the ______ of a public key to an individual or other entity. They allow verification of the claim that a given public key does in fact belong to a given individual. Certificates help prevent someone from using a phony key to ______ someone else. In their simplest form, certificates contain a public key and a name. As commonly used, a certificate also contains an ______ date, the name of the CA that issued the certificate, a serial number, and perhaps other information. Most importantly, it contains the digital ______ of the certificate issuer. The most widely accepted format for certificates is X.509, thus, certificates can be read or written by any application complying with X.509.71. 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】 数字认证是一种证明个人或其他机构拥有某一公开密钥的数字文件。数字认证用于确定某一给定的公钥是否确实属于某个人或某个机构。数字认证有助于防止有人假冒别人的秘钥。形式最简单的数字认证包含一个公钥和一个用户名。通常,数字认证还包括有效期,发证机关名称,序列号,也许还包含其他信息。最重要的是,它包含了发证机关的数字签名。最普遍公认的数字认证标准是X.509国际标准,任何遵循X.509的应用程序都能读写遵循X.509标准的数字认证。