Overview
The thawte SSL Web Server Certificate offers comprehensive authentication procedures (domain name and identity verification). It also offers 256, 128, 56 or 40-bit encryption depending on your client's browser capability and the cipher suite installed on your web server. This ensures that information is kept private while in transit between your web server and your clients' web browsers.
- Encryption - Up to 256-bit encryption enabled.
- Browser Compatibility - Highest in industry.
- Certificate Details - Domain and identity authentication and verification.
- thawte Trusted Site Seal - Included (available in 18 multiple languages).
- Root CA - Yes.
- Free Reissues - Yes - unlimited for the lifespan of the certificate.
- Technical Support - Free, 24/5 multi-lingual for all global time zones.
- Secures Internationalized Domains - Yes - thawte is the first Certification Authority to have all its SSL certificates support IDNs character sets.
- Time to Issuance - Within minutes of completing enrollment.
- SGC Technology - No.
- CRL - Yes - Certificate Revocation List fully supported.
- Online Certificate Status Protocol - Yes.
Features
What does the certificate do?
When one applies for a thawte SSL Web Server Certificate, the
verification and authentication procedure that that particular
individual/group/company is subject to is of the very highest
standard. In fact, a stringent checklist of activities is undertaken
to ensure that you really are who you claim to be. An overview of
the validation process is as follows:
- Authentication:
- Company registration details confirmed
- Confirmation that domain is owned by requesting party.
- Verification:
- 3rd party telephone listing used to confirm that the authorized person requesting certificate is employed by requesting party.
The value of this process cannot be underestimated, and it is this that has been the foundation of thawte'sviable reputation as a rock-solid independent Certification Authority (CA).
What does a thawte SSL Web Server Certificate do?
- It inspires trust in those who are considering communicating/transacting with you, by verifying that you are who you say you are.
- It guarantees information privacy and protects information in transmission between your web server and your clients' web browsers using 256, 128, 56 or 40-bit encryption, depending on your client's browser capability.
Benefits
Your choice of digital certificate depends mainly on whether identity assurance to your customers is vital, and that your company details are added to the certificate contents. This facility comes standard with both the SSL Web Server Certificate and the SGC SuperCert after a stringent verification process.
For absolute
peace of mind that you are getting highest protection
possible, a SGC SuperCert is always recommended.
Support
thawte offers the same premium level of support across all products. As a thawte customer you will have FREE access to:
- Full and unlimited online support for the lifetime of the certificate
- Multi-lingual global support in 28 languages
- Live online chat for sales and certificate order processing
- 24 x 5 technical support
- Unlimited access to thawte's extensive online knowledge base
- Highly trained and dedicated support staff
Can you get the after sales technical support you need?
Depending on your level of experience in working with digital certificates, you may require assistance at various stages throughout the lifecycle of the product, from the initial request for a certificate to installation, renewal and possible reissuance of a certificate if required.
thawte has the support capabilities to assist you during the initial sales process as well as more unforeseen circumstances such as server migration, where competent support is always the most valuable. Most importantly, thawte's technical support is FREE and available globally 24 x 5.