The end-entity certificate is the final link in the chain of trust. The end-entity certificate (sometimes known as a leaf certificate or subscriber certificate), serves to confer the root CA’s trust, via any intermediates in the chain, to an entity such as a website, company, government, or individual person. An end-entity certificate differs from a trust anchor or intermediate certificate in that it cannot issue additional certificates. It is, in a sense, the final link as far as the chain is concerned. The example below shows the end-entity SSL/TLS certificate from SSL.com's website: