How do I know if it is a secure server?
If not configured otherwise, the browser alerts you are entering a secure seserver. The address of the website begins with https: / / instead of "http://"
• In Netscape provides the following information: the key to the lower left, which usually appears item is complete a blue line appears in the upper limit of the display area.
• In MS Internet Explorer displays a closed padlock like this Certification authority There are companies that are responsible for ensuring that the identity of the two parts of a transaction is reliable. The whole world agrees to rely on these organisms as validators for this entity. These entities are the certification authorities (Certificate Authorities, CA).
Certification authorities are responsible for authenticating the participants in a transaction or communication. The use of secure channels can not guarantee the appearance economic transaction. For example, anyone could impersonate another person correctly entering your credit card details. For this, the Authorities Certification are required to authenticate and ensure that each / is to say be.
Secure servers
Verisign CA is more consolidated today, although many companies are maneuvering quickly to offer their own solutions. In the case of Verisign different classes of certificates, depending on the level of authentication to be achieved and the requirements to run the same function this level.
• Certificates of 'Class 1' is the lowest is for individual use and delivers is available on the Internet, the only thing that authenticates the relationship between a username / a and an e-mail address.
• Certificates of "Class 2" is awarded after comparing the information provided by the subscriber in some databases consumers as.
• Certificates of "Class 3" are recommended for Trade Address. It is in them that is verified through authentication civil registration and documentation of additional reports, even require the user or the user personally bring the application before Notary / a.
The issuance and verification of certificates of authenticity is subject to a hierarchy of trust with a principal certifying authority that issued certified for the lower levels.
Other certification authorities are Thawte, GlobalSign, BelSign (for Europe) or IPS in Spain