Tag: Thawte

How Does Secure Socket Layer (SSL or TLS) Work?

July 22, 2013

The Secure Socket Layer, SSL for short, is a protocol by which enables services that communicate over the Internet to do so securely. SSL has recently been replaced by TLS (Transport Layer Security).  TLS is newer and more secure than SSL (See TLS vs SSL: What is the difference?); however, from a lay-person’s perspective of […]

Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates

December 30, 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 […]