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Digital Certificate

Digital Certificate: A digital certificate is an electronic "credit card" that establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web.

The certificate is issued by a certification authority (CA). It contains your name, a serial number, expiration dates, a copy of the certificate holder's public key (used for encrypting messages and digital signatures), and the digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority so that a recipient can verify that the certificate is real.

Digital certificates can be kept in registries so that authenticating users can look up other users' public keys.

ssl

Secure Socket Layer: The SSL protocol is the web standard for encrypting communications between users and web sites. Data sent via an SSL connection is protected by encryption, a mechanism that prevents eavesdropping and tampering with any transmitted data.

SSL provides businesses and consumers with the confidence that private data sent to a web site, such as credit card numbers, are kept confidential. Web server certificates are required to initialize an SSL session.

True Business ID (Digital Certificate)

A combination of a digital certificate for web servers, and an identity verification seal that verifies the organization. This seal contains the name of the company along with a dynamic date and time stamp. It uses 128-bit SSL encryption.

Quick SSL (Digital Certificate)

A digital certificate for web servers that is quickly generated from the time of order. This certificate authenticates the domain and not the organization. It uses 128-bit SSL encryption.

Quick SSL Premium (Digital Certificate)

A digital certificate for web servers, which includes a security site seal with a dynamic date and time stamp. It is quickly generated from the time of order. This certificate authenticates the domain and not the organization. Uses 128-bit SSL encryption.

CSR

Certificate Signing Request. A Certificate Signing Request is a text file generated by a Web server which contains the following: