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Digital Certificate.You can obtain a certificate from a certificate authority. The certificate authority issues an encrypted digital certificate containing a public key.
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Digital Certificate
This certificate is thought of as an electronic "credit card" that establishes your credentials when doing business or any other transactions on the Web. It 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. Some digital certificates conform to a standard, X.509 and can be kept in registries so that authenticating users can look up other users' public keys.
Individual Security
Security conscious users who have been assigned a digital certificate can send digital files
to an individual or try to access computer-based information, using the certificate as one would use a passport.
Certification authority
Digital certificates have to be signed by an independent and trusted third party to
ensure their validity. The "signer" of a digital certificate is known as a certification authority (CA), such as VeriSign.
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 Digital Certificate Vendor - Company profiles of a number of Digital Certificate Vendors. Plus prices and details of the digital certificate services that they offer.
How to obtain a certificate
If you are an individual wishing to send an encrypted message then you need to
obtain a certificate from a certificate authority. The certificate authority issues an encrypted digital
certificate containing a public key and a variety of other identification information.
Receiving a message
Recipients of encrypted messages use the certificate authority's public key to decode
the digital certificate attached to the message. This verifies that it is issued by the certificate authority and then
obtains the sender's public key and identification information held within the certificate. With this information, the
recipient can send an encrypted reply.
The most relevant links we could find, placed here free
 Free security
- CAcert offer free digital certificates. www.cacert.org
Online security
- solutions from Thawte. www.thawte.com
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