The following is a list of the trusted third-party certificate signers:
GlobalSign??”https://www.globalsign.net/
GeoTrust??”https://www.geotrust.com/
VeriSign??”https://www.verisign.com/
RapidSSL??”www.freessl.com/
Thawte??”www.thawte.com/
EnTrust??”www.entrust.com/
ipsCA??”www.ipsca.com/
COMODO Group??”www.comodogroup.com/
Because of the fluid nature of the certificate business, some of these companies may not
be in business when you read this, while others may have come into existence. To get a
more current list of certificate authorities, from your Mozilla Firefox browser select Edit???Preferences.
From the Preferences window that appears, select Advanced???Manage Certificates. From the Certificate
Manager window that appears, refer to the Authorities tab to see Certificate Authorities from which
you have received certificates.
Each of these certificate authorities has gotten a chunk of cryptographic code embedded into nearly
every Web browser in the world. This chunk of cryptographic code allows a Web browser to determine
whether or not an SSL certificate is authentic. Without this validation, it would be easy for
crackers to generate their own certificates and dupe people into thinking they are giving sensitive
information to a reputable source.
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