The SSL LOCK has added another cost-effective CA brand to our existing list of CA brands.
Certum SSL is a product provided by Certum, a European Certificate Authority (CA) that specializes in digital security services. Certum SSL certificates are used to encrypt data transmitted between a user's browser and a website, ensuring secure ...
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Starting June 1, 2023, code signing certificate keys must be stored on a hardware security module or token that’s certified as FIPS 140 Level 2, Common Criteria EAL 4+, or equivalent. This is intended to fight against an increasingly common problem—stolen code signing keys being used to sign and distribute malware.
To meet these new ...
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As concluded by the CA/B Forum, the “Organizational Unit” is a concept purely internal to a company, which therefore lacks credible, outside information sources for a Certificate Authority (CA) to use. As a result, the OU field cannot be authenticated and could contain almost any text that a customer or CA chose to include. Although existing ...
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HTTP based DCV or file-based validation is a domain validation process where the domain owner need to upload a file containing a unique identifier given to the certificate applicant by the Certificate Authority (CA). The CA server will locate and check this file to confirm the proof of the requestor of the certificate for that domain.
The ...
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