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 What Are SSL Certificates?
Solution SSL certificate provide information that says that a web server is trusted by an 3rd party, or a Certificate Authority. The job of a Certificate Authority is to confirm both from and to location, and then provides the public keys to each other. SSL (Secure Server Layer) itself is the Internet security protocol. Certificate Authorities include Thawte ( http://www.thawte.com ), VeriSign ( http://www.verisign.com ) and some others.

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Article ID: 92
Created On: 23 Jan 2008 01:22 AM

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