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The Certificate Signing Request is received by the Registration Authority and sent to the Certification Authority for signing. Any actions of approval or not will take place at the Registration Authority. The result of the signing, the Certificate, is sent back to Alice through the Registration Authority. For the better collection of the certificates, they are often stored on a Directory Server.