A digital certificate is a document signed by a trusted certificate authority (CA). The certificate contains information about the public key owner and the public key file. It is a trusted credential that is issued by a CA to a website. A certificate must contain a public key, a certificate name, and a digital signature provided by a CA.
Digital certificates are valid only for a specific period of time.
CA stands for certificate authority.
As a trusted third party in an e-commerce transaction, a CA is responsible for verifying the validity of public keys.
A certificate signing request (CSR) file contains your server and company information. When you apply for an SSL certificate, you must submit the CSR file to a CA. The CA signs the CSR file by using the private key of the root certificate and generates a public key file to issue your SSL certificate.
HTTPS is based on HTTP and SSL. It is a secure version of HTTP and encrypts website communications based on SSL.
After you install an SSL certificate on the server of your website, HTTPS is enabled to activate the SSL-encrypted channel between browsers and the web server. This enables bidirectional encrypted transmission and prevents data tampering or interception during transmission.
An SSL certificate is a trusted credential that is issued by a CA to a website. It uses the SSL protocol for communications and implements website authentication and encrypted transmission.
SSL certificates provide a layered data security mechanism between TCP/IP and application protocols, such as HTTP, Telnet, and FTP. SSL uses public keys to encrypt data transmitted over TCP/IP connections, ensure message integrity, and authenticate servers and clients. Client authentication is optional.
SSL certificates use a public key encryption system that uses a matching key pair to encrypt and decrypt data. Each user creates a private key that is highly secured and not disclosed to anyone for decryption and signature. Meanwhile, the user creates a public key and discloses this key to a group of users for encryption and signature verification.
After you install an SSL certificate on a web server, HTTPS is enabled for the web server. When you access your website by using the web server, your website will transmit data over HTTPS. HTTPS helps establish trusted and encrypted connections between your website and the web server. This ensures secure transmission of data.