SSL certificates

If you want to protect the communication between you and your visitors, you need a secure connection. This is essential when sensitive information like credit card or log in data is transmitted. In short, SSL certificates are the perfect protection for intranets, administration fields, login pages, online shops, online banking and other commercial pages. Private websites can also benefit from the increased trust that is created by these SSL certificates.

The encryption program SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a feature of HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure). If a connection with HTTPS is established, it is shown in the address bar with https in front of the website name or a symbolic lock icon. SSL superimposes the HTTPS connection and serves as a certification of the public key, the authentication of the web server, the examination of the transmitted certificate and as the encrypted data transmission between transmitter and receiver. In addition, the secure encryption standard AES-256-bit with a key length of 2,048 Bit is employed.

It shows visitors that they can trust you as the authenticity and identity of your website has been checked and confirmed by an independent third party certification body. This is done in several stages. In a simple Domain SSL certificate, only the domain name is authenticated; whereas in an Organizational SSL certificate, the domain owner is also checked on the basis of the commercial register entry. In an Extended SSL certificate, the business address and other detailed information are also checked for the highest level of data security.

SSL certificates are issued by the recognized certification authority Starfield Technologies. Starfield Technologies has been a Certificate Authority since 2004 and has over 1 million active certificates in use around the world. All certificates are issued according to the latest standards including SHA-2 and Certificate Transparency logging (EV) and thus offer a very high level of security for digital communication over the Internet.