Uses for Digital Certificates
Digital certificates aren’t just for breakfast anymore. They can be used for clients who want to authenticate a web server to verify they are connected to the correct server using HTTP Secure (HTTPS), Transport Layer Security (TLS), or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). For the average user who does not have to write these protocols, but simply benefits from using them, they are all effectively the same, which is HTTP combined with TLS/SSL for the security benefits. This means that digital certificates can be used when you do online banking from your PC to the bank’s website. It also means that if you use SSL technology for your remote-access VPNs you can also use digital certificates for authenticating the peers (at each ...
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