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Organisation Validated SSL

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Organisation Validated SSL — is top level certificate which processing needs to check a real data about company. Besides a domain name, this SSL contains an information about company, which it is was granted to. Certificates guarantee secured connection between user’s browser and server, and prove that the website belongs to the company, what is specified in it

Domain Validated SSL

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Domain Validated SSL — is also called personal. This certification needs checking a primary level domain. To get this certificate, it’s enough to prove your ownership of the domain. You can stand the test through email validation by following the link in an email to one of the domain email addresses, or through HTTP validation by placing certain file in domain root directory.

Extended Validation SSL

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Extended Validation SSL — is a top level certificate which has some distinctive feature — green bar in browser address field, where the company or organisation name is specified. Certificates of this type guarantee the highest degree of client’s trust, that’s why large companies order them. To get this certificate, a company submits the set of documents, which need few days to check.

SSL Protocol

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SSL protocol (Secure Sockets Layer) is cryptographic protocol, which provides secured connection between user and server.

Wildcard SSL

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Standard SSL certificate is usually granted for just one full domain name (FQDN). It means that with its help you can protect only that domain, which it was granted for. When using Wildcard SSL, you get SSL certificate for a group of subdomains .domain.*() allows to use this certificate for any number of subdomains on unlimited number of servers.

SSL certificate

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SSL certificate is some of the unique digital signature, or digital identity of your website, which confirms that data exchange between website and browser is conducted by secured channel. Website protection with SSL certificate allows to provide secured encrypted connection between web server (website) and web client (browser) by means of HTTPS protocol.

DNS resource records

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DNS server, which is responsible for host names in its zone, must keep hosts’ data in database and give it for requests of other devices. DNS database is text file, which consists of RR records (resource records). These records describe computers and their functions in a domain zone. To start data exchange with remote DNS servers, the DNS server soft must be launched (it’s usually ‘named’

DNS сервер

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What DNS server is and how it works? If DNS is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system, which contains data about server names (hosts) and allows to identify their IP addresses, than DNS server as a component of it is a software and hardware system, which contains necessary data about domain and provides it upon request in accordance with technical network requirements.

Public Key

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Public Key - Public Key is open part of key pair. This key allows viewing SSL certificate on your website. It complies with your private key.

Private Key

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Private Key - is the half from key pair (first half is public key). It’s used in SSL certificate. Private key should be kept in secret. It’s forbidden to send it by email, disclose or rely it to somebody.

HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure)

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HTTPS protocol (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) is a continuation of HTTP protocol for supporting secure data exchange. It allows client and server to provide encrypted communication channel and to send messages by this channel with protection from bugging. Supports TLS/SSL encryption technology.