What is SSL Certificates

What is SSL Certificate?

SSL certificate is one thing that is important for a website, especially for sites that store customer data and personal information such as online shop and web companies. By using SSL Certificates, your site will be protected from risk such as theft identity, and other hacking action. Many customers who will refuse to do business with sites that don’t have a SSL Certificate. When you use SSL certificate for your site, you will get an SSL Site Seal that tells visitors and your customers that they can shop with the security of knowing their data is protected. Each SSL certificate has a level of security varies, depending on the level of validation.

How SSL Works?

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology protects your website and makes it easy for your users to trust you.

Why EV?

Improve customer experience and confidence with the “Green Bar Address”

Give your customers the confidence to make online purchases with EV SSL Certificates. Extended Validation triggers display a green address bar in the browser with a high level of security.

• A simple and reliable way to build customer trust.
• Displays the name of your company through the “Green Address Bar” SSL Certificate and Certificate Authority along with the name.
• The transaction is encrypted and your company has been confirmed in accordance with the most stringent industry standards.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What’s SSL, and what is SSL Certificates?
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It is a layer of encryption to encode the information that is exchanged between client and server, to protect the transmission of sensitive data and personal.
An SSL Certificate enables you to apply SSL encryption technology to your site, so the information passing from the site is encrypted. For each site that handles sensitive information such as identity information, credit card numbers, or confidential records, SSL certificate will be very useful for data security consumer/visitor.

2. How does SSL Certificates works?
SSL certificate is a file that is installed on a web server. This file consists of two segments. The first is the public key, which encrypts data. The second is the private key that decrypts the data. When a client, through a web browser, connect to the SSL server to create a unique session is created using two keys. All data through this session will be protected, and can not be decrypted by the other party except by the client and server.

3. Why do I need an SSL certificate for my site?
If your site sending or receiving sensitive information, customers expect to be secured with SSL certificate. Many people will leave your site if they feel insecure because their data is not protected.

4. My domain is registered at another registrar. Is it okay to buy a SSL certificate through Another Webshop?
Of course, the domain that you want to use doesn’t have to be registered with us. If you don’t understand how to install an SSL certificate for your domain, our support team is ready to help you.

5. Do you sell the Certificate Chain?
Yes, all our certificates using CA (certificate authority).

6. What is CA?
CA stands for certificate authority (certificate authority). A CA is a company that issuing the SSL certificates.

7. What is the difference between a domain certificate validation, organization validation and extended validation?
Domain Validation or domain validation certificates to authenticate that the buyer is the legal owner of the domain that will be paired certificate. Although the domain validation is authentication lowest level, but the price offered his process is quite cheap and fast.
Organization Validation requires several tests to confirm the relationship between domain names, domain owners, and businesses that certificate to be used.
Extended Validation certificates require a certificate authority (the company issuing the certificate, such as GeoTrust or Symantec) to carry out more extensive verification of the buyer’s business and their authority to purchase a certificate on behalf of the company. Once installed, the EV certificate changed the browser address bar green to give the visitor a visual cue that this is a site that can be trusted.

8. What are the advantages of buying a certificate with a high degree of validity?
Low certificate validation only encrypt the connection. Higher validated certificate do the same encryption, but instill more confidence for your visitors by showing that the certificate authority has validated your site as part of a legitimate business. Green address bar in the browser will show the name of your company.

9. What are the advantages of theGreen Address Bar?
Green Address Bar provide an intuitive visual cues that your business is legitimate. The green line is only available with Extended Validation (EV) certificates. Instead, the major web browsers have integrated anti-phishing protection to known phishing sites will display the address bar red. Studies have shown a strong positive impact for businesses that use EV certificates.

10. How important is the validation certificate with high level?
Functionally, all certificates perform its main task is to encrypt the data traffic. However, for customers, branding in the certificate has the same effect as clothes designer: give customers a guarantee that the design of the elite is elite as well.

11. How do my visitors know the kind of SSL certificate used by my site ?
To find out the type of SSL certificate used by a site, visitors can simply click the lock icon in the address of your website, which it will appear all information about certificates that the site use.

12. Is SSL certificates are compatible with all web browsers?
Yes, all the SSL certificates 99.99% working and compatible on all types of web browsers.

13. I change my web server and then the certificate is not working. What should I do?
You have to generate a new CSR to your certificate. Then contact your certificate provider for reissued the SSL certificate for your site.

14. Will I be able to upgrade the SSL certificate for my site?
No, you have to wait until the period of validity of your certificate expires. Or you can buy a new certificate if you want to use a more secure.

15. What is SGC?
Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) was developed for legacy computers and browsers that only support 40 or 56-bit SSL encryption to “step up” in the 128-bit SSL encryption. Without SGC certificates, web browsers and operating systems that not support 128-bit strong encryption will receive only 40- or 56-bit encryption.

16. Do I need special skills to install the SSL Certificate?
Certificate installation is not difficult, all you can do it through your cPanel account.

17.What is CSR?
CSR or Certificate Signing Request is a special key generated by the web server using a unique private key from the server. CSR is sent to the issuer of the certificate, which resulted in a final certificate.

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