Depending on your browser, websites with SSL certificates will have a padlock icon or your address bar will change color and users can click on the padlock icon to verify the identity of the certificate owner.

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The identity of the person using the unauthorised certificate has not been reported, and their intentions are unknown.

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Audit requirements are satisfied by including with every electronic document a separate certificate of completion and a legally binding audit trail with the identity of the signer, a time stamp, and location information.

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His critics say that a Udacity certificate is worth nothing and how can one know the true identity of a student on the free-for-all jungle that is the Internet?

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The guarantee of identity is in the form of a digital passport known as a certificate.

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In Rhode Island, voters will be able to prove their identity by using a birth certificate, Social Security card or government-issued medical card, none of which have photos, until 2014.

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