SSL certificate issued by a trusted CA certificate granting organization granted, it is a real person with real-name authentication and data encryption to transmit data effect. In the past year, the world include Google, FireFox and other major popular PC browser will promote the station name data encryption.
SSL Certificates show a spurt in China increase, regardless of the company's official website or personal station will actively apply for the SSL certificate.
EMC certificate compiled a manual purchase an SSL certificate security detail as follows:
The first step: statistical analysis of the total number of domain SSL certificate from the total number of domain names can be divided into single-domain, multi-domain and other types of wildcards, the greater the total number of domain name maintenance, the price of the more expensive certificate.
So people must first statistical analysis of the total number of domain name maintenance, which can then clear the selection of the type of SSL security certificate:
1, can maintain a mailbox domain name, choose single-domain SSL certificate is sufficient;
2, maintaining multiple domain names not directly related, you can choose multi-domain SSL certificate;
3, the plurality of domain names and maintain the domain name is associated with the primary and secondary domain name may be selected multi-domain SSL certificate or wildcard certificate.
Step Two: Identify the level of authentication SSL certificates have DV, OV and EV authentication level three, level from low to high, is not the same level of authentication of SSL certificates necessary to apply for the material and its properties are not the same. So you can have details of the URL to select an SSL certificate for your own website authentication level.
1, DV SSL certificates (proof-domain SSL certificate): it just verify the right to use the domain name, quickly granted, but the safety factor is generally appropriate name I station (such as risk passengers, from media platforms).
2, OV SSL certificate (SSL certificate authority validates type): You must verify the identity information granted to companies or institutions, stronger safety factor for small and medium enterprise class website.
3, EV SSL certificates (proof-expanding SSL certificate): the largest factor of safety certificates, to verify the approval but also the most demanding, and put on EV SSL certificate URLs computer browser search box turns green and displays the name of the enterprise information, general use to finance security, e-commerce, financial institutions and other demanding URL.
The third step: the selection of well-known brands certificate SSL certificate is awarded by a trusted CA organization at this stage of the world there are several trustworthy CA organizations, such as Symantec, GeoTrust, Comodo and RapidSSL and so on.