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• Self-issued Certificates are not applicable within reasonable effort for deploying individual certificate files to JOC Cockpit, Controllers and Agents.
• Private CA-signed Certificates are issued by users who operate their own Private Certificate Authority (CA).
• Public CA-signed Certificates are issued by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) that validates the domain owner. They are not created by users but are purchased from the trusted CA and therefore are not considered in the scople of this article.

There is no difference in using a Private CA or Public CA concerning functionality of X.509 certificates, usage for Server Authentication / Client Authentication, or security of connections. The only difference is that users trust the Private CA that they set up on their own.

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