SSL provides visitors to your website with the confidence to communicate securely via an encrypted session. For companies wishing to conduct secure e-commerce, such as receiving credit card numbers or other sensitive information online, SSL is essential.
The key elements of an SSL Certificate are: SSL (Secure Sockets Layer): Creates an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. CSR (Certificate Signing Request): A certificate file generated by the webhost. CA (Certificate Authority): The vendors from whom a certificate is brought.
You can get a distributed ssl certificate or you can buy one for your class. If you decide to get your own SSL credentials, this is the general process.
You should decide on the ssl certificate issuer. One should always look for the established issuer. Some of the certificate authority vendors are RapidSSL, GeoTrust and Verisign.
Before getting your own SSL certificate, you should study on the need for the ssl certificate. Documentation is necessary in such situation. Once you have decided on the need, you can then go for the appropriate vendor. RapidSSL provides certificates which are cheap and reliable. Verisign can be used by the high end business firms. GeoTrust provides certificates for both.
This is just an overview. Every vendor provides different services. Check on the documentation of each of the vendor.
All certification that is requested must match exactly. Secure certificate authorities testament will verify whether your business exists or not, so they know they are issuing to the proper company. You will need to prove that the Organization Name and the Domain name are, in fact, yours to use.