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A digital certificate is an electronic "credit card" that establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web. It is issued by a certification authority (CA). It contains your name, a serial number, expiration dates, a copy of the certificate holder's public key (used for encrypting and decrypting messages and digital signatures), and the digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority so that a recipient can verify that the certificate is real.
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A form of personal identification that can be verified electronically. Only the certificate owner who holds the corresponding private key can present a certificate for authentication through a Web browser session. Anyone can verify that the certificate is valid by using a readily available public key.
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A Digital Certificate issued by a Certificate Authority certifies that a merchant and a particular website are connected, just as a photo on your driver's licence connects your identity with your personal details. A digital certificate verifies to the shopper that the virtual store is actually associated with a physical address and phone number which can increase the shoppers confidence in the authenticity of the merchant.
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A digital certificate is a special message signed by a certificate authority that contains the name of some user and their public key in such a way that anyone can "verify" that the message was signed by no one other than the certification authority and thereby develop trust in the user's public key.
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Online identification authenticates a consumer, merchant and a financial institution. Digital certificates used to encrypt information exchanged in SET transactions. A certificate is a public key digitally signed by a trusted authority (the financial institution) to identify the user of the public key.
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A digital certificate is a special kind of message that contains information about who it belongs to, who it was issued by, a unique serial number or other unique identification, valid dates, and an encrypted "fingerprint" that can be used to verify the contents of the certificate. Digital certificates are issued by trusted third parties, known as Certificate Authorities. ...
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An electronic document that verifies the owner of a public key, issued by a certificate authority.
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A digital certificate is an electronic "credit card" that establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web. The most common use of a digital certificate is to verify that a user sending a message is who he or she claims to be, and to provide the receiver with the means to encode a reply.
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A digitally signed statement that binds the identifying information of a user, computer, or service to a public/private key pair. A digital certificate is commonly used in the process of authentication and for securing information on networks.
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an attachment to an electronic message that allows the recipient to authenticate the identity of the sender via third party verification from an independent certificate authority. Digital certificates are used to identify encryption and decryption codes between message senders and recipients.
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An electronic "identification card" which contains such information as the certificate holder's name and a serial number.
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A document containing the name of a user (client) or server, a digital signature, a public key, and other elements used in authentication and encryption. See also X.509.
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Virtual fingerprints authenticating the identity of a person or thing absolutely. The certificate itself is simply a collection of information to which a digital signature is attached.
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A means of authorisation. Unless the Web browser you are using can provide IPReg with your Digital Certificate and you can give IPReg the password that goes with that Certificate you will not be granted access.
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An electronic document used to verify the identity of a user, server or other End Entity. Digital Certificates are used to verify that a user sending a message is who he, she or (in the case of other End Entities) it claims to be and to provide the recipient with a means to encode a reply.
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An electronic document signed by the CA which: (1) identifies a key holder and the business entity he or she represents; (2) binds the key holder to a key pair by specifying the public key of that key pair; and (3) should contain any other information required by the certificate Profile.
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An electronic method of verifying the identity of a person or corporation; it is essentially a digital signature. The certificate is designed to prevent fraud or impersonation in Internet-related transactions.
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(Digital ID as it is sometimes called). An electronic ID file, operating like a driver's license or passport, that a Certificate Authority attests that bearers of the certificates are actually who or what they claim to be.
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an electronic guarantee that the sender of a message is whom he says he is.
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An authentication system that confirms a website is registered to the correct individual(s) through a thorough validation process.
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The electronic equivalent of an ID card. The identity of its holder is linked to the public key through the certification authority signature. This identity may consist of a name or a network attribute (IP address or URL).
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Confirmation of identity in an online environment, often stored in a digital wallet.
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Also called a digital ID. An official electronic identity document based on public/private key encryption and obtained through a certificate authority. Includes a user’s name, registered serial number, the user’s public key, and its expiration date. Most certificates conform to the International Telecommunication Union’s X.509 standard, but not all are compatible across all Web browsers. Compare digital signature.
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A Digital Certificate is used as identification when dealing with an e-commerce site.
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A digital certificate is provided to a business by a certificate authority after undergoing a thorough background investigation. A digital certificate provides a business with a protected Server ID that can be used in conjunction with encryption technology to guarantee the security of a transaction.
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In cryptography, a public key certificate (or identity certificate) is a certificate which uses a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity — information such as the name of a person or an organisation, their address, and so forth. The certificate can be used to verify that a public key belongs to an individual.
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