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For your e-commerce venture to be successful, you must be able to ensure the integrity of your online customers' transactions. This includes measures that allow customers to verify the authenticity of the information on your web site, secure the submission of confidential customer information, and provide a mechanism that prevents either party from denying that a transaction has occurred. Digital X.509 certificates play a central role in providing and securing your online customers' transaction information.
Essentially, a digital certificate serves as an electronic substitute for a sealed envelope or your signature when you send messages across the Internet. Your Digital ID resides securely in your browser or e-mail software and allows you to digitally sign and encrypt your e-mail.
In order to ensure the integrity of your shopper's information, you should obtain a client certificate.
Your client certificate is used for
Encrypting of the sensitive shopper information such as credit card numbers, that is e-mailed to you in a way that only your private key can decrypt.
Enabling shoppers to verify the authenticity of a supplier (e.g. to confirm that the information presented has not been tampered with and that you are who you claim you are).
Digital Certificate Providers
Verisign
VeriSign is the leading provider of digital authentication products and services. Through a special offer from VeriSign, users can obtain a free trial digital ID which you can use to positively identify yourself to, or receive encrypted messages from, business associates, friends, and online services when you use secure e-mail.
Thawte Certification
Thawte Certification provides certificates for signing and encrypting e-mail. These certificates are recognized and trusted by the majority of mail clients in use today on the Internet. Thawte is a global CA that has already certified 30% of the world's Internet e-commerce servers.
GlobalSign
GlobalSign is the Leading European Trusted Network of Certification Authorities (CA) that, signs and manages digital certificates. GlobalSign offers Certification Authority Products and Services which enable organizations and individuals to secure business and personal transactions across communication networks (e.g., Internet, Intranet) through the use of Digital Certificates.
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