Client certificate

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In cryptography, a client certificate is a type of digital certificate that is used by client systems to make authenticated requests to a remote server.{{Cite IETF|rfc = 5246|section = 7.4.4 |last1 = Dierks|first1 = T.|last2 = Rescorla|first2 = E.|date=August 2008 |accessdate = 29 October 2014}} Client certificates play a key role in many mutual authentication designs, providing strong assurances of a requester's identity.