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# Certificate Manager glossary

Available in Classic and VPC

There are a few terms you need to know to use Certificate Manager. The terms and their descriptions are as follows.

### Private Key

A key value that is not open and is used secretly among asymmetric key pairs (public key, private key), which is used to decrypt a certificate encrypted with the public key.

### Public Key

A key value that is provided by a designated Certificate Authority among asymmetric key pairs (public key, private key), which is used to encrypt a certificate.

### Load Balancer (LB)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that distributes network traffic to multiple servers in consideration of server performance and load

### Root CA

The certificate authority at the top of the CA hierarchy

### Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

Encryption technique for the web used when providing security-related transactions like credit card numbers in e-commerce

### Asymmetric Key-based Encryption

Cryptography that uses different keys for encryption and decryption upon data en/decryption (public key encryption method). Create ciphertext/plaintext by calculating data and keys mathematically. The keys used are composed of a pair of key values that can be made public and key values that must remain secure.

### Certificate Authority (CA)

A reliable online organization that manages security appropriateness, and issues and manages public keys for message encryption(Source: [Telecommunications Technology Association](http://terms.tta.or.kr/main.do))

### Certificate Manager (CM)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that provides easy registration and management of SSL certificates

### Certificate

Data of an entity that is impossible to tamper with due to the usage of the certificate authority's private key or secret key

### Content Delivery Network (CDN)

A NAVER Cloud Platform service that quickly and safely delivers various content to internet users

          Note

          

To see a full list of terms and definitions, go to [Glossary](https://www.ncloud.com/guideCenter/glossary) from the NAVER Cloud Platform portal.