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Elektronic sertificate
What does it mean?
An Electronic certificate represents legitimation in electronic form. It will be used most frequently across open networks as Internet to prove you are who you claim to be.
Furthermore it is used for verification of electronic signatures; to make a statement that one specific signature is not being falsified.
Technically speaking, an Electronic certificate means an electronic attestation which links signature-verification data to a person and confirms the identity of that person.
Electronic certificates are supported in a lot of other SW-products in the marked, as:
• Browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator
• Recent e-mail clients
• Web-servers
• VPN-solutions to be used for securing remote access controls
• Firewalls
Persons as well as enterprises and computers may be assigned as certificate holder.
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