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SSL Certificate Authority Reviews
SSL certificate authorities (CA) are SSL certificate providers that issue digital certificates to organizations or people after verifying their identity. Each of SSL certificate authorities have different products, prices, certificate features, and levels of customer satisfaction. In order to help you separate the wheat from the chaff, we have collected reviews for each of the major certificate providers. These certificate authority reviews will help you decide which of the SSL providers to trust with your SSL certificate needs.
The reviews cover customer support, ease of managing SSL certificates, as well as certificate issuance speed and overall customer satisfaction. If you are looking for a specific certificate rather than a certificate authority, use our SSL Wizard. Also, please write a review for one of the certificate authorities if you have bought an SSL certificate from them so that others know what to expect.
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What does a certificate authority do?
A certificate authority verifies an entity's credentials and, essentially, certifies that they are who they say they are. Once an entity's information has been verified, the certificate authority will sign it's public key using the CA's private key. Because all major certificate authorities have "root certificates" in web browsers, the entity's certificate will be linked through a "chain of trust" and the web browser will recognize it as a trusted certificate. Basically, web browser developers are saying "We trust this certificate authority and they say that this is the entity's public key so, if we use it, we know we are talking to the right entity."