Actually I’m the one who may have conflated the certificates with the keys. I’m not sure the article actually did that
“I’m not sure the article actually did that”
it wasn’t you, it was the article:
“The ongoing analysis of the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s laptop has revealed that there are multiple Department of Defense “encryption keys” on it. These keys allow access to DOD email accounts and databases. The exact number of these keys is still unknown. There may be dozens.
The keys are known more formally as “root encryption certificates.””
[AND multiple other garbage uber-right-wing-conspiracy websites promulgated the same deliberate ignorant conflation ... it was one of those echosphere reverberations that bounced around for a while]