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===Robot Certification Authorities===

[[Robot certificate authority| Robot CA]]s are unattended programs that automatically validate certain aspects of a public key's validity and sign it to attest that those aspects are valid. They can eliminate or greatly reduce certain types of attacks in public key systems, particularly those that involve an attacker temporarily diverting all network traffic from a legitimate site. Aspects typically validatesvalidated include (a) that the key is published with the knowledge of the holder of the email address it purports to be for (b) that holder of the email address is in possession of the secret key corresponding to the public key and (b) the currency of use of the key.

==History==