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Given a CA certificate and another untrusted certificate, will show whether the
CA signs the certificate. This is a useful thing to have if you're signing with
X509 certificates, but outside of SSL.

A specific example is where you're working with XML signatures, and need to
verify that the signing certificate is valid.