FAQs - Web Sevices
Digital Certification
SGC SuperCert
The Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) digital certificate is our premium SSL certificate, providing the highest possible protection in all circumstances. The SGC SuperCert offers 256-bit encryption in all browsers (released after Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x or Netscape 4.06). In older-browsers it ensures a minimum of 128-bit encryption to 99.9% of all users, even if the user's browser supports only 40-bit or 56-bit encryption.
NOTE
You need an SGC SuperCert instead of our Web Server Certificate, if any of the following are true for your business:
- You have an International (non-US) audience/customer-base, or/and
- You need to provide the highest possible encryption for each and every visitor to your website, or/and
- You conduct medium to high-value e-commerce transactions via your web interface.
SGC SuperCert Features and Benefits
| Encryption | 256-bit with lowest possible encryption level of 128-bit protection for 99.9% of users even with older browsers |
| Browser Ubiquity | Highest in industry |
| Certificate Details | Domain and identity authentication and verification |
| Certificate Authentication | Stringent Business Verification and Authentication |
| Average Issuance Speed | Less than 2 days |
| thawte Trusted Site Seal | Yes - free (available in multiple languages) |
| Root CA | Yes |
| Free Reissues | Upto 5 times from Issuance until Expiry 1 |
| Secures Internationalized Domains | Yes (thawte is the first Certification Authority to have all its SSL certificates support IDN character sets.) |
| SGC Technology | Yes (only a few CAs can offer this.) |
