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Explain Digital Certificates

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Explain digital certificates.

Asked in the First Round Interview stage. Basic security concepts technical check.

Address what a certificate contains, how a CA-signed trust chain works, how certificates support TLS authentication, how private keys differ from certificates, and how expiry or revocation is handled.