Issuance
- CSR Generation
- Configuration
- Validation
- Issuance
- Installation
- Site Seal Installation
Overview
Upon issuance, the SSL Certificate
SSL Certificates are created for a particular server and domain, and are issued by trusted, third-party Certificate Authority (CA) - comparable to your passport. As the Certification Authority, the SSL Certificate vendor authenticates the identity of the purchaser and verifies the business that owns the domain. is sent to you by the Certificate Authority (GeoTrust, Digicert,Sectigo etc) via email and then needs to be installed on the web server hosting the domain that the Certificate applies to.
Issuance
At the conclusion of the applicable Validation process, the SSL SSL is an acronym for Secure Sockets Layer. It is used for securely transmitting data via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Many websites, including those that utilize ecommerce or facilitate banking transactions use the protocol to transmit confidential user information, such as credit card numbers.
By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http: Certificate will be provided by way of a Issuance email. The issued Certificate is sent via email to Contact specified in the Configuration process.
Aside from the SSL Certificate itself, the Issuance email contains installation instructions for the Certificate, any necessary Intermediate Certificates, as well as Site Seals for use on the associated website.
Once the certificate is issued and has been received, it needs to be installed on the intended web server.