Endpoint Validation

Endpoint Validation is the process to assert that the endpoint of a communication is the intended recipient and not a hostile recipient pretending to be the intended one.

Endpoint Validation is provided by SSL and HTTPS. I.e.: When Browsing to the website of your bank, their server identifies itself with a Private Key that is signed by a Certificate Authority, who we trust to have asserted the physical identity of the party that requested the Private Key.