9 Reasons to Choose ClickSSL

1. Important of Consumer Convenience

ClickSSL provides quick and easy to obtain an SSL certificates. Before consumers enter credit card or sensitive personal information online they want to confirm that they are on the intended site and that their information is protected. Our SSL Certificates are trusted and secure. We help you protect sensitive information during transmission when your customers, business partners, and employees connect with you online.

2. Best Products – Lowest Price : Price Match Guarantee

Our SSL Certificates prices are cheap but products are best in SSL Industries. Our SSL Certificate supports 99+ % of all browsers and most mobile browsers and enable up to 256-bit encryption. We proudly guarantee the lowest pricing of all our brand SSL certificates. We always want you buy and renew SSL Certificates from us only. We guarantee lowest pricing and clock around quality support services what make us choice of smart buyers like you

3. One Stop Solution for Renew SSL Certificates

We offer you to renew your existing SSL Certificate at the lowest price in the market place. This would help securing your website online transactions at low price. We will bring continuity of cost effective internet security solutions to you. We offer an exclusive discount of Renew SSL Certificates. It makes renewal very easy and fast. You can get many benefits when you renew your SSL Certificate from the site. You will get 90 days extra validity on regular renewals or earlier renewals. You can also get special discounts for multiyear renewals from this site. This is about to give more discount to the customer and make them safe from internet fraud.

4. Get Free "SSL Secured Site Seal"

The “secured site seal” helps to establish your online authenticity by showing your visitors that your site has verified by most trusted Certificate Authorities on the Internet. When visitors to your web site see the “secured site seal”, they feel more confident to complete their online business and you will notice a marked reduction in abandonment rates and boost your online business.

5. Delivered by Leading Certificate Authorities

ClickSSL is Platinum Partner Company of RapidSSL, Thawte, GeoTust and VeriSign. We authorized to resell and renew all SSL Certificates. We offers highly secured and widely trusted SSL certificates at lowest price to support ecommerce security.

6. Broad range of online security products

ClickSSL has broad range of SSL products like Domain Validation SSL, Business Validation SSL, Wildcard SSL, EV SSL, SAN SSL, SGC- enable SSL Certificate and Code Signing Certificates.

7. 24x7 technical and sales supports
When you need help to setting up, managing and renewing your SSL Certificate. Our security experts give you easy and straightforward solution. Our professional administrator always analyses on ecommerce security. ClickSSL has helps companies and organizations of every size around the globe secure their e-commerce and Internet communications. A leader in Internet security solutions, ClickSSL offers affordable SSL Certificates, 24 x 7 support and advanced e-commerce products that are easy to use.
8. Get FREE Warranty
We importance our consumers, so we have guaranteed to offer SSL Certificates that include a warranty in the happening an SSL Certificate is mis-issued. The warranties range from $5,000 to $1,500,000 on all of our SSL Certificates, correct warranty information offered by all Certificate Authorities is available here.
9. Money-back guarantee
Our main goal is provide excellent consumers service, here at we are looking for completely clients satisfaction. We offer 100% refund of order amount on any SSL certificate purchase up on order cancellation request. If you are not satisfied, you can easily get your money back without any question.

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SGC SSL Certificate: Enabling Strong Encryption for the Most Site Visitors

If your reputation in the online community depends upon the stringent safeguarding of information processed through your Web site, then your Internet security solution should include the strongest encryption available to each Web site visitor.

Encryption is the process whereby data is transformed into a code that will be indecipherable to an unauthorized viewer. The stronger the encryption, the more difficult it is for someone to eavesdrop on your online communications. This is especially important if you accept any kind of online payments, connect to a bank or brokerage account, transmit health records, must meet a governmental or other regulatory organization’s privacy and security standards, or process any kind of potentially sensitive information.

Industry experts recommend a minimum of 128-bit encryption be used for all secure online sessions. Some Web server-client browser configurations enable sessions with up to 256-bit encryption protection, the strongest level of encryption commercially available today.

The strength of encryption enabled for any session depends on what your customer’s browser and operating system support, as well as what your host server systems will support. If your consumer’s browser or operating system does not support higher levels of encryption, the session will default down to the highest level that it can support.

Regular 128-256 bit SSL Certificates intended for securing leading sites over usual browsers, where SGC SSL Certificates upgrade the encryption capabilities of older browsers from 40-bit encryption into full 128- or 256-bit encryption.

Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) enabled SSL Certificates upgrade the encryption capabilities of older browsers from 40-bit encryption into full 128/256 bit encryption – ensuring your website protects and is trusted by the highest number of internet users possible.

With SGC SSL Certificate, encryption levels are controlled by the server and not dependent on the client system. Once these original export restrictions were lifted, SGC-enabled SSL Certificates are now issued to all types of Web sites, not just authorized financial institutions.

VeriSign offers market-leading SGC-enabled SSL Certificates so virtually every visitor to your Web site will be protected by the industry recommended minimum of 128-bit encryption.

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Installation Guideline: SSL Certificates on Tomcat Server

SSL – Secure Socket Layer is a security Protocol. SSL Certificate is a digital signature. SSL Certificate is also known as Public Key Identity certificate. SSL is a protocol for securing communication between a web browser, and web server. Whenever you access a web server using https, the page you are sent is encrypted, and any information you send to that server is also encrypted

• Install Root CA Certificate

1) Download your SSL Certificates from SSL Certificate Authorities like RapidSSL, Thawte, GeoTrust or VeriSign. 
2) Use the Primary and Secondary Intermediate CA contents into a text file. (Use a text editor - Notepad or Vi.)
3) Primary Intermediate CA (file name as primary_inter.cer)
4) Use the below control  to import this Certificate in the keystore:

keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias primaryIntermediate -keystore (your_keystore_filename) -file primary_inter.cer

5) For the Secondary Intermediate CA, (file name as secondary_inter.cer)
6) Use the below control  to import this Certificate in the keystore:

keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias primaryIntermediate -keystore (your_keystore_filename) -file primary_inter.cer

• Install the SSL Certificate

SSL CA email your Certificate. Use an attachment file(Cert.cer). Copy and paste it into a text file.
Use the below control  to import your SSL Certificate:

keytool -import -alias -keystore (your_keystore_filename) -trustcacerts -file (your_certificate_filename)

• configure the SSL in Tomcat with server.xml

1) Close the Tomcat Server, when it is running. While it is started, Changes to the file /conf/server.xml are read by Tomcat Server.
2) Open the file < NPJBMK _HOME>/conf/server.xml in a text editor.
3) Detect the following section of code in the file. Remove comment tags around the Connector entry. The comment tags that are to be removed are shown below.

4) Save and restart Tomcat server


About ClickSSL:

ClickSSL.com is SSL Certificates Reseller and the platinum partner of Leading Certificates Authorities such as VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL. Buy or Renew Wildcard SSL, EV SSL, Multi-Domain SSL Certificates and many more from ClickSSL at Cheapest Prices in the Industry.

Why ClickSSL? We offer internet business owners to buy or renew SSL Certificates for their internet based business at very low cost. Why We Sell Cheap SSL Certificates? We buy bunch SSL Certificates from leading authorities and pass discounts to internet business owners. For more information visit ClickSSL.com

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SSL - Single Root Vs Chained Root

SSL certificates are basically two types.

1. Single Root Level SSL Certificate
2. Chain Root SSL Certificate

When connecting to a web server over SSL, the visitor's browser decides whether or not to trust the website's SSL certificate based on which SSL Certification Authority has issued the SSL certificate. To determine this, the browser looks at its list of trusted issuing authorities - represented by a collection of Trusted Root CA certificates added into the browser by the browser vendor (such as Microsoft, Linux, UNIX, Sun and Netscape, Mozilla, Safari).

Where is this list of CA in your computer?

When browsers and operating systems are developed / installed, most CA Root certificates will be installed. As all Root CA are required to authenticate SSL certificate on any website. When you browse any website on HTTPS://, browser will automatically identify Root Certificate as defined earlier. If browser fails to identify CS then there would be an error message.

Most SSL certificates are issued by CAs who own and use their own Trusted Root CA certificates, such as those issued by VeriSign, RapidSSL, Thawte, and GeoTrust. As all of these are known to browser vendors as a trusted issuing authority, its Trusted Root CA certificate has already been added to all popular browsers like Internet Explore (IE 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0), Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Netscape and hence is already trusted. These SSL certificates are known as "single root" SSL certificates. RapidSSL and GeoTrust own the Equifax root used to issue its certificates. As well VeriSign and Thawte have own Root to issue SSL certificates.

What is Chained Root SSL Certificate?

Some Certification Authorities do not have a Trusted Root CA certificate present in browsers, or do not use the root they do own. In place they use a "chained root" in order for their SSL certificates to be trusted - essentially a CA with a Trusted Root CA certificate issues a "chained" certificate which "inherits" the browser recognition of the Trusted Root CA. These SSL certificates are known as "chained root" SSL certificates. However chained root certificates installation is more complex and some web servers and applications are not compatible with chained root certificates. Chained root certificates require additional effort to install as the web server must also have the chained root installed. This is not necessary for single root certificates.

For a Certification Authority to have and use its own Trusted Root CA certificate already present in browsers is a clear sign that they are long-time, stable and credible organizations who have long term relationships with the browser for the inclusion of their Trusted Root CA certificates. For this reason, such CAs are seen as being considerably more credible and stable than chained root certificate providers who do not have a direct relationship with the browser vendors, or do not use their own root certificates to issue SSL certificates.

ClickSSL.com provides only Single Root SSL Certificates.

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What is ClickSSL Reseller Program?

What is CLICKSSL Reseller Program?

• CLICKSSL Reseller program is specially developed for online SSL certificate reselling.

Is this Reseller Program Free?

• Yes - ClickSSL offers FREE reseller program.
• Reseller account and API - 100% FREE.
• No upfront payments. Only Pay As you Buy.

What are Reseller account benefits?

• Reseller Account is FREE!
• Reseller will be offered discounted price than regular price.

Who can register for SSL reseller program?

• Companies who having business domain in SSL certificate selling, website hosting, website development, website designing, domain registration provider and all type of IT services.

My business does not belong from any of above domain; shall I enroll for Reseller Account?

• Yes – You can enroll for FREE SSL Reseller Account. You will get $0 set up reseller account.

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Introduction to SSL

Certificate Authority (CA)

— A Certificate Authority is a trusted third-party organization that issues digital certificates such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates after verifying the information included in the Certificates.

Encryption

— Encryption is the process of scrambling a message so that only the intended audience has access to the information. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology establishes a private communication channel where data can be encrypted during online transmission, protecting sensitive information from electronic eavesdropping.

Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificate

— Requires a high standard for verification of Secure Sockets (SSL) Certificates dictated by a third party, the CA/Browser Forum. In Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7 and other popular high security browsers, Web sites secured with Extended Validation SSL Certificates cause the URL address bar to turn green.

HTTPS

— Web pages beginning with "https" instead of "http" enable secure information transmission via the protocol for secure http. “Https” is one measure of security to look for when sending or sharing confidential information such as credit card numbers, private data records, or business partner data.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Technology

— SSL and its successor, transport layer security (TLS), use cryptography to provide security for online transactions. SSL uses two keys to encrypt and decrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message.

SSL Certificate

— A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate incorporates a digital signature to bind together a public key with an identity. SSL Certificates enable encryption of sensitive information during online transactions, and in the case of organizationally validated Certificates, also serve as an attestation of the Certificate owner’s identity.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate is the World Standard for Web Security. SSL technology confronts the potential problems of unauthorized viewing of confidential information, data manipulation, data hijacking, phishing, and other insidious Web site scams by encrypting sensitive data so that only authorized recipients can read it. In addition to preventing tampering with sensitive information, SSL helps provide your Web site’s users with the assurance of having accessed a valid Web site. Support for SSL is built into all major operating systems, Web applications, and server hardware—meaning that SSL’s powerful encryption technology helps provide your business with a system-wide, liability limiting security blanket for fortifying consumer confidence, boosting the percentage of completed transactions, and enriching the “bottom line.”

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What is SSL and why should I care?

Data security over open communication networks such as the Internet will always be a strong concern for developers and customers. Therefore, it is extremely important for a any product you use to be able to achieve a secure environment.

What is SSL?

SSL is a protocol that provides privacy and integrity between two communicating applications using TCP/IP. The data going back and forth between client and server is encrypted using a symmetric algorithm.

A public-key algorithm (RSA) is used for the exchange of the encryption keys and for digital signatures. Public key cryptography defines an algorithm that uses two keys, each of which may be used to encrypt a message. If one key is used to encrypt a message, the other must be used to decrypt it. This makes it possible to receive secure messages by simply publishing one key (the public key) and keeping the other undisclosed (the private key).

Digital certificates

This takes us into the discussion of digital certificates, which play an important role in SSL Certificates. Digital certificates mainly serve two purposes:

• To establish the owner's identity
• To make the owner's public key available
• A digital certificate is issued by a trusted authority -- a certificate authority (CA) -- and it is issued only for a limited time. When its expiration date passes, the digital certificate must be replaced. SSL uses digital certificates for key exchange, server authentication, and optionally, client authentication.
• The digital certificate contains specific pieces of information about the identity of the certificate owner and about the certificate authority:
• The owner's distinguished name.
• The owner's public key.
• The date the digital certificate was issued.
• The date the digital certificate expires.
• The issuer's distinguished name. This is the distinguished name of the CA.
• The issuer's digital signature.
• An SSL connection is always initiated by the client using a URL starting with https://  instead of http://.

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VeriSign Extended Validation Certificate

Extended Validation Certificates (EV) are a special type of X.509 certificate which requires more extensive investigation of the requesting entity by the VeriSign, Thawte, GoTrust before being issued.

The criteria for issuing EV certificates are defined by the Guidelines for Extended Validation Certificates, currently at version 1.1. The guidelines are produced by the CA/Browser Forum, a voluntary organization whose members include leading CAs and vendors of Internet software, as well as representatives from the legal and audit professions

An important motivation for using digital certificates with SSL was to add trust to online transactions by requiring website operators to undergo vetting with a certificate authority (CA) in order to get an SSL certificate. However, commercial pressures have led some CAs to introduce "domain validation only" SSL certificates for which minimal verification is performed of the details in the certificate.

Most browsers' user interfaces did not clearly differentiate between low-validation certificates and those that have undergone more rigorous vetting. Since any successful SSL connection causes the padlock icon to appear, users are not likely to be aware of whether the website owner has been validated or not. As a result, fraudsters (including phishing websites) have started to use SSL to add credibility to their websites.

By establishing stricter issuing criteria and requiring consistent application of those criteria by all participating CAs, EV SSL certificates are intended to restore confidence among users that a website operator is a legally established business or organization with a verifiable identity.

EV SSL Certificate issuing criteria

Only CAs who passes an independent audit as part of their Web Trust (or equivalent) review may offer EV, and all CAs globally must follow the same detailed issuance requirements which aim to:

• Establish the legal identity as well as the operational and physical presence of website owner;
• Establish that the applicant is the domain name owner or has exclusive control over the domain name; and


• Confirm the identity and authority of the individuals acting for the website owner, and that documents pertaining to legal obligations are signed by an authorized officer.

VeriSign EV SSL Certificate at User interface

Browsers with EV support display more information for EV certificates than for previous SSL certificates. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3, Safari 3.2, Opera 9.5, and Google Chrome all provide EV support.

The Extended Validation (EV) guidelines require participating Certificate Authorities to assign a specific EV identifier, which is registered with the browser vendors who support EV once the Certificate Authority has completed an independent audit and met other criteria. The browser matches the EV identifier in the SSL certificate with the one it has registered for the CA in question: if they match, and the certificate is verified as current, the SSL certificate receives the enhanced EV display in the browser's user interface.

VeriSign Extended Validation certificate identification

EV certificates are standard x.509 digital certificates. The primary way to identify an EV certificate is by referencing the Certificate Policies extension field. Each issuer uses a different object identifier (OID) in this field to identify their EV certificates, and each OID is documented in the issuer's Certification Practice Statement.

What is Extended Validation's effect on phishing?

In 2006, Stanford University students conducted a usability study of the EV display in Internet Explorer 7. The study attempted to measure users' ability to distinguish real sites from fraudulent sites when presented with various kinds of phishing attacks.

Due to the small size of the study's sample base (nine test subjects per cell) the margin for error of each result was several times the actual measurement, and therefore no useful conclusion was possible. However, this study led the way for other researchers to present results of a statistically significant nature. In January 2007, usability research firm Tec-Ed published its results of running 384 North American test subjects through purchasing simulations on sites with and without green address bars.

Tec-Ed concluded that latent understanding of green address bars was very high, with 93% of test subjects recognizing a site with a green address bar as a safer shopping experience than one without. With regard to Extended Validation's defense against phishing, the Tec-Ed research reveals that when a site adopts green address bars, then 77% of users visiting what appears to be the same site but without the green address bar will decline to complete the transaction. Apparently, though, these results followed some training, so it is difficult to infer what untrained users would do.

To get VeriSign EV Certificate at lowest price visit: https://www.clickssl.com

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More about RapidSSL Certificate

As you know RapidSSL is largest SSL Certificate seller in the world. As a CA (Certificate Authority) RapidSSL strongly follow industry standard in SSL issuance and validation process.

What validation processes does RapidSSL use?

Trust hierarchy demands that entities "vouch" for each other. Companies that issue SSL certificates are in the business of establishing that entities on the web are, in fact, who they claim to be. The potential for criminal activity on the web (in relevance to SSL anyway), is in online ‘hijacking’ of sites or connections to siphon encrypted data. Persons so inclined can easily "copy" web site interfaces and pose as well known vendors, simply to collect these data.

SSL certificates work to prevent this through ensuring that www.abc.com is, in fact, ABC Co. In the “real world”, RapidSSL use identification procedures like photo ids, telephone calls and papers of incorporation to know with whom we’re dealing. If products or services are defective, buyers can seek recourse. In the “online world”, companies wishing to use SSL certificates must prove to the certificate authority that they have the right to present themselves online as ABC Co.

This is done through a variety of means in different SSL products. For simplicity’s sake, consider the method started and championed by Verisign, as the ‘traditional’ model. The process involves certificate petitioners faxing in their articles of incorporation, and then waiting several days to be granted a certificate to do business online under that name. There is a fair amount of overhead related to this task, as these credentials are examined and reviewed, and full-service products in this arena can cost hundreds of dollars.

There are newer, lower-cost alternatives in which certificates are issued more quickly. These SSL certificates verify that the certificate holder is the owner of that domain, ensuring customers that URL “owners” are who they claim to be.

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