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If certified cost or pricing data has been requested by the Government and submitted by an offeror, but an exception is later found to apply, the data should not be considered to be "certified". [1] The requirement for a certificate of cost or pricing data may also apply to sub-contractors at any tier in the supply chain. [2] [4]
GeoTrust was the first certificate authority [2] to use the domain-validated certificate method [4] US Granted 8028162, Douglas D. Beattie & Christopher T. M. Bailey, "Methods and systems for automated authentication, processing and issuance of digital certificates", published September 27, 2011, assigned to GeoTrust which is now widely accepted and used by all certificate authorities ...
Example of a DigiCert issued wildcard certificate for *.wikipedia.org. DigiCert was founded by Ken Bretschneider in 2003 and sold in 2012. [2] [3] [4] Bretschneider stepped down from the position of CEO to retain business strategy oversight as executive board chairman while Nicholas Hales became CEO.
In cryptography, a public key certificate, also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate, is an electronic document used to prove the validity of a public key. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The certificate includes the public key and information about it, information about the identity of its owner (called the subject), and the digital signature of ...
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs and .edu sponsored top-level domains.
An Extended 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 that can issue EV certificates. EV certificates can be used in the same manner as any other X.509 certificates, including securing web communications with HTTPS and signing software ...
Due to the use of the self-signed PKCS#10 format for Certificate Signing Requests (CSR), certificates can be enrolled only for keys that support (some form of) signing. A limitation shared by other enrollment protocols based on PKCS#10 CSRs, e.g., EST and ACME , or even the web-based enrollment workflow of most PKI software where the requester ...
A notable case of CA subversion like this occurred in 2001, when the certificate authority VeriSign issued two certificates to a person claiming to represent Microsoft. The certificates have the name "Microsoft Corporation", so they could be used to spoof someone into believing that updates to Microsoft software came from Microsoft when they ...