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List of terms
For your understanding, SupraLink provides you this list of terms for Digital Certificates.

Term	Definition
Digital Certificate	A digital certificate is an electronic Credit Card that establishes your credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web. The certificate 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 messages and digital signatures and the digital signature of the certificate-issuing authority so that a recipient can verify that the certificate is real. Digital certificates can be kept in registries so that authenticating users can look up other users' public keys.
SSL	Stands for Secure Socket Layer. The SSL protocol is the web standard for encrypting communications between users and web sites. Data sent via an SSL connection is protected by encryption, a mechanism that prevents eavesdropping and tampering with any transmitted data. SSL provides businesses and consumers with the confidence that private data sent to a web site, such as credit card numbers are kept confidential. Web server certificates are required to initialize an SSL session.
True BusinessID™ Digital Certificate	A combination of a digital certificate for web servers and an identity verification seal that verifies the organization. This seal contains the name of the company along with a dynamic date and time stamp. It uses 128-bit SSL encryption.
True BusinessID™ Wildcard Digital Certificate	A digital certificate for web servers that can secure multiple websites that share the same domain and server. Also includes an identity verification seal that verifies the organization. This seal contains the name of the company along with a dynamic date and time stamp. It uses 128-bit SSL encryption.
QuickSSL™ Digital Certificate	A digital certificate for web servers that is quickly generated from the time of order. This certificate authenticates the domain and not the organization. It uses 128-bit SSL encryption.
QuickSSL Premium™ Digital Certificate	A digital certificate for web servers, which includes a security site seal with a dynamic date and time stamp. It is quickly generated from the time of order. This certificate authenticates the domain and not the organization. Uses 128-bit SSL encryption.
CSR	Certificate Signing Request. A Certificate Signing Request is a text file generated by a Web server which contains the following: Information about your organization (organization name, country, etc) Your Web or Wap Server's public key SupraLink will use the Certificate Signing Request to generate your signed digital certificate.

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