| English | French |
| CA compromise | autorité de certification compromise (A situation in which it is known or suspected that the CA's private key or other aspects of the CA validated in the certificate have been revealed) |
| CA hierarchy | hiérarchie d'autorités de certification (A hierarchy in which the roles of the certification authority are separated into one root CA and one or more subordinate CAs) |
| enterprise CA | AC d'entreprise (A computer service that issues digital certificates that can only be used inside a business or organization) |
| intermediate CA | AC intermédiaire (A certification authority that has the ability to issue the intermediate certificates needed to certify the subject identified by the end certificate) |
| issuing CA | AC émettrice (In a public key infrastructure hierarchy, the certification authority that that issues certificates to users and computers) |
| root CA | AC racine (The most trusted certification authority (CA), which is at the top of a certification hierarchy. The root CA has a self-signed certificate) |
| stand-alone CA | AC autonome (A certification authority (CA) that is not integrated with Active Directory) |
| subordinate CA | AC secondaire (In a public key infrastructure (PKI) hierarchy, any certification authority that is not the root CA) |
| trusted root CA | AC racine de confiance (A root certification authority that appears in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities console of the Windows operating systems and is trusted by the operating system) |
