HOSTING WEB offers digital certificates. A digital certificate is a digital credential that validates the identity of the certificate's owner, much as a passport does. The identification information that a digital certificate provides is known as the subject distinguished name. A trusted party, called a Certificate Authority (CA), issues digital certificates to users or to organizations. The trust in the CA is the foundation of trust in the certificate as a valid credential.

ComparisonChart	SSL123	Web Server	SGC SuperCert	Wildcard Server
Purchase Plan
Yearly Price	US$ 69	US$ 169	US$ 339	US$ 789
Reissues	Free	Free	Free	Free
Encryption Level	Upto 256-bit	Upto 256-bit	Upto 256-bit with step-up to 128-bit	Upto 256-bit
Step-Up Functionality	-	-		-
Authentication	Domain Check and Quick Validation	Comprehensive Business Verification and Authentication	Comprehensive Business Verification and Authentication	Comprehensive Business Verification and Authentication
Average Issuance Speed	Within minutes	Less than 2 Days	Less than 2 Days	Less than 2 Days
Browser Compatability	Highest in the industry	Highest in the industry	Highest in the industry	Highest in the industry
Securing Web domains
Securing gateways (e.g.. Citrix Secure Gateways)
Supports IDNs
Securing multiple hosts for a domain on the same server	-	-	-
Securing web forms for e-commerce sites
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A digital certificate also contains a public key which is part of a public-private key pair. A variety of security functions rely on the use of digital certificates and their associated key pairs. You can use digital certificates to configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) sessions to ensure private, secure communication sessions between users and your server applications. You can extend this security by configuring many SSL-enabled applications to require certificates instead of user names and passwords for more secure user authentication.

The Thawte Trusted Site Seal

Once you have obtained a Thawte SSL certificate, you will be able to display the ThawteTrusted Site Seal on your website to upload onto their website. On the side is anexample of the Thawte Trusted Seal.The Thawte Trusted Site Seal is a visible, real-time assurance for visitors to your website, that guarantees that the information they submit to your website is private. The Thawte Seal informs your Customers that your website is certified by the most trusted digital certificate provider on the Internet. Thawte is recognized world over as a premium certification authority. By clicking on the Thawte Trusted Site Seal, your website visitors will get real-time confirmation of the validity of the certificate on the web server that they are connected to.