Their customers, either individuals or corporations, assume their financial institutions are trustworthy in sensitive services like digital certificates.
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So it decided to set up a PKI for issuing digital certificates.
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The government of the Netherlands is investigating whether Iran was connected to cyber attacks on Dutch government websites, in which digital certificates were stolen.
In the past, customers could buy a VeriSign service called On-Site to get digital certificates, but they had to configure their VPN clients manually.
Symantec surmises that to obtain digital certificates, someone may have physically entered the premises of the firms which issue such certificates and stolen them.
Apple is now vetting developers and allowing them to sign their apps with digital certificates indicating that they're not distributing malware or other dangerous programs.
About 250, 000 million digital certificates will secure conversations between these machines.
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The holy grail for e-commerce, however, would be a system in which users had permanent digital certificates on their computers containing details of age, citizenship, sex, professional credentials, and so on.
"Digital certificates are required for connection to the RRP service, but user ID and passwords are required to initiate a session, " explains Rick Wesson, an IETF member and a senior software engineer at Alice's Registry Tools.
Facebook and Apple are connecting this holiday season, as the social networking giant has added iTunes digital gift certificates to its Facebook Gifts product.
The bitcoin portion of the transaction is accomplished through the use of redeemable coupon codes from the popular bitcoin exchanges that act as digital bearer certificates.
As many consumers get new smartphones, tablets, e-readers and digital content gift certificates for Christmas, they spend Christmas day loading up their devices with new content.
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