network traffic required for certificate validation, the OCSP protocol may be used instead. While a validation authority is capable of responding to a network-based...

Certificate Authorities also offer Extended Validation (EV) certificates as a more rigorous alternative to domain validated certificates. Extended validation is...

identity may be validated either directly or indirectly. In direct validation the local entity queries the central authority to validate the remote identities...

However, it is possible to move certificate validation functionality into a dedicated validation authority authorized by the offline root CA. To better...

August 30, 2017, to also include a new validation-methods token, which ties a domain to a specific validation method, and then further amended on June...

domain on the basis of information about that entity. A third-party validation authority (VA) can provide this entity information on behalf of the CA. The...

Validation (EV) Certificate is a certificate conforming to X.509 that proves the legal entity of the owner and is signed by a certificate authority key...

rigor (and naturally, cost) they are: Domain Validation, Organization Validation and Extended Validation. These rigors are loosely agreed upon by voluntary...

certificate authority, validation authority and registration authority. This is in contrast to commercial certificate, validation and/or authorities that are...

certificates that have been deemed invalid by a signing authority, as well as a certification path validation algorithm, which allows for certificates to be signed...