What is the difference between SSL certificates?

The number of companies that use SSL certificates has increased significantly over the past few years, there are several reasons for this: Some businesses need SSL to provide privacy (i.e., data encryption). Some businesses use SSL to add more trust and assurance of security for customers (they want you to know they are a genuine…

How to pass phone verification to issue an SSL certificate.

For SSL certificates with organization validation, one of the validation steps is to check the phone number of the organization. To pass the verification, the certification center searches for your company in one of the public telephone directories, such as the “Yellow Pages” and if your company is found, it makes a verification call to…

SSL certificate formats

There are different formats of certificate files for different platforms. PEM Format This format is most often used by certificate authorities. PEM certificates most often have the extension .pem, .crt, .cer, or .key. They are encrypted using Base64 and contain the strings —–BEGIN CERTIFICATE—– and —–END CERTIFICATE—–. Apache and other similar servers use this format…