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by Erik Kangas, PhD, President
Posts Tagged ‘Thawte’
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
 Standard SSL Certificates are issued by an Certificate Authority (CA) such as Thawte after the CA performs some basic standard validation on the identity of the certificate request to ensure that the certificate is not issued to “the wrong hands”.
The types of validation performed for standard SSL certificates vary by the type and cost of the certificate, but include:
- A confirmation email message sent to the domain administrator as specified in the domain’s entry in the WHOIS database
- A confirmation email message sent to a standard administrative email address at the domain itself, such as “admin@domain.com”.
- The name of the organization owning the domain name may be validated.
You should purchase SSL Certificates that use the above forms of validation in order to:
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Tags: certificate authority, ev, extended validation, extended validation SSL certificate, ssl, ssl certificate, Thawte
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
We are often asked by customers why they should pay more for an SSL certificate from LuxSci/Thawte instead of purchasing from a third party provider like Go Daddy. I.e., what justifies the added expense?
There are two key considerations in choosing Thawte SSL from LuxSci:
- The recognition of an SSL certificate from Thawte.
- The benefit of LuxSci managing the order process, installation and subsequent SSL renewals.
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Tags: certificate authority, geotrust, go daddy, godaddy, ssl, ssl certificate, ssl123, Thawte
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
 The Secure Socket Layer, SSL for short, is a protocol by which many services that communicate over the Internet can do so in a secure fashion. Before we discuss how SSL works and what kinds of security it provides, let us first see what happens without SSL.
Life on the Internet without SSL
Let us compare communications between computers on the Internet and communications between people over the telephone. Without SSL, your computer-to-computer communications suffer from the same security problems from which your telephone communications suffer:
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Tags: ciphers, decrypt, eavesdropping, encrypt, key length, private key, public key cryptography, secure port, secure socket layer, ssl, SSL in action, symmetric cryptography, Thawte, tls, trust
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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