What is an SSL/TLS Certificate?
An SSL certificate, or Secure Sockets Layer certificate, is a digital document that authenticates a website’s identity and enables an encrypted connection. It establishes an
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Category: SSL/TLS
SSL Certificate Expiration Guide
Why do SSL Certificates Expire? Think of an SSL certificate as a passport for your website, verifying its identity and ensuring secure connections. Just as
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Automatically Generate Unique IoT Device Certificates Using Prevalidated Domains
Introduction: SSL.com provides a domain prevalidation capability that speeds up the process to issue certificates. The process is extended to all subdomains to the left
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What is a Certificate Authority (CA)?
Certificate authorities (CAs) are critical in securing online communications and identities. But what exactly does a CA do? And how do they establish trust online?
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What Is Certificate Pinning?
What is Certificate Pinning? Certificate pinning is a security mechanism used in the context of authenticating client-server connections, particularly in the context of secure communication
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SSL/TLS Handshake: Ensuring Secure Online Interactions
Whenever we visit a website, make an online purchase, or check our email, data is transmitted back and forth between our devices and remote servers.
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The Essential Guide to SAN Certificates
SSL/TLS certificates securely enable HTTPS and other encrypted connections for websites and services. Typically, you need a separate certificate for each hostname or domain you
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Preparing Your Organization for the Quantum Revolution: A Guide to Implementing Post-Quantum Cryptography
Quantum computers will be potent and pose a massive threat to encrypting data as we know it. Here at SSL.com, we are on top of
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SSL/TLS Best Practices for 2023
An overview of current best practices to keep in mind when setting up SSL/TLS for your website, focusing on both security and performance.
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A Guide to PKI Protection Using Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) relies on public and private keys to encrypt data. Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) safeguard these keys in tamper-proof boxes. HSMs store
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SSL.com Legacy Cross-Signed Root Certificate Expiring on September 11, 2023
What is a cross-signed root certificate? A cross-signed root certificate is a digital certificate issued by one Certificate Authority (CA) that is used to establish
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Install SSL.com CA Root Certificates
CA Root Certificates, CA-bundle, Intermediate Files
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SSL/TLS Health Check Monitoring (HCM) Guide and Pricing
The SSL.com SSL/TLS Health Check Monitoring (HCM) service provides a real-time snapshot of your website’s SSL/TLS certificate installation health. It performs a deep scan of
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DV, OV, IV, and EV Certificates
Certificates from SSL.com include DV (Domain Validated), OV (Organization Validated), IV (Individual Validated), and EV (Extended Validated) Certificates.
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Domain Name SSL/TLS Pre-Validation
How to pre-validate a domain name in your SSL.com customer portal. Methods covered are email challenge, HTTP file lookup, and CNAME CSR hash.
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Organizational Unit (OU) Field to be Deprecated by SSL.com
Important Announcement: The Organizational Unit (OU) Field within an SSL/TLS (website) Certificate, https://www.ssl.com/certificates/ will be deprecated effective September 1, 2022, at the request of the CA/Browser Forum.
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May 2022 Cybersecurity Roundup
A lot of newsworthy cybersecurity events have occurred from the start up until the end of May. But before we discuss those, we will open
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SSL.com Adaptable Driver for Venafi
Managing a high volume of machine identities throughout an organization can be a challenge. As Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi, explains: “Often, organizations don’t understand
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Install Chained SSL Certificates on SonicWALL SSL Offloader
How to install an SSL Certificate on SonicWALL SSL Offloader.
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How to install a TLS/SSL Certificate to the Oracle Wallet Manager
Introduction Oracle Wallet Manager is an application used to manage and edit security credentials in Oracle wallets. A wallet is a password-protected container that stores
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Manually Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) Using OpenSSL
How to manually generate a Certificate Signing Request (or CSR) in an Apache or Nginx web hosting environment using OpenSSL.
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How to Add OV Recipient Info to Certificates
Document signing certificates can be validated and issued either with an “IV” (individual validation) or “OV” (organization validation). During the certificate creation process, the the
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Acceptable Business Listings for Validation
Validation and Callback Issuing a digital certificate is a carefully-structured process which includes you, the customer, providing pertinent information confirming your identity and choosing the
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Delegated Credentials for TLS
Terminating a TLS connection requires using a certificate’s private key. As a result, the private key needs to be stored at every single server utilized
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