Geotrust Secure Certificate Charges (NZ GST excluded)

Secure Web Server Certificates are currently priced at NZ$175 per year for each certificate and NZ$50 for us to install and setup your secure certificate on our server. We will generate a Certificate Signing Request(CSR) for your website, order the certificate and install it for you.

About GeoTrust
GeoTrust is the world’s second largest digital certificate provider, and a leader in a wide variety of Identity and Trust services. GeoTrust’s comprehensive array of technologies enables organizations of all sizes to secure e-business transactions cost-effectively.GeoTrust's Web Security Services offer hosting providers and businesses with world-class digital certificates for fast transaction security and patent-pending ‘smart seals’ to ensure a trusted identity on the Web.GeoTrust’s Enterprise Services offer fully-managed security services for large enterprises. This next-generation PKI technology safeguards network access, online communication and digital transactions – and offers the kind of powerful competitive advantage every organization needs.GeoTrust’s Identity Verification Services ensures the identity of business entities and/or individuals in online transactions. GeoTrust products also validate website identities, instilling confidence in consumers and boosting online sales.GeoTrust’s signing technologies represent the latest in next-generation services for digitally signing applications, binding people and documents, and assuring code integrity to wireless platforms. These services span both document signing and code signing.More than 70,000 companies in over 140 countries employ GeoTrust technology for transaction security, identity verification and trust services on the internet and over wireless networks.

What is a GeoTrust Server Certificate?
A GeoTrust Server Certificate gives your clients the confidence to send credit cards and/or other personal information to your server over an open network like the Internet. With a GeoTrust Server Certificate, clients will know who they are talking to (authentication) and that their information will be very difficult for anyone but the intended party to understand (encryption). GeoTrust also offers additional benefits that make its Server Certificates the best value in the industry.

What is a Certificate Authority (CA)?
An organization or person responsible for defining and administering the processes for the issuance, renewal, suspension, and revocation of certificates. It also defines the policies and procedures that are followed in verifying an identity and/or a person's relationship to that organization. The CA authorizes the signing of certificates. It works through Registration Authorities (RA) to approve these requests.

What are the issues that digital certificates and public key infrastructure address?
Digital certificates and public key infrastructure address four issues.

• Confidentiality - was the information received only by the intended recipient?
• Authenticity - was the information sent by the person claiming to be the sender?
• Integrity - was the information altered en route to the recipient?
• Binding agreements - can a sender claim that the information received by the intended recipient was never sent? Is this a legally binding document?

How does a digital certificate work?
Each person who is issued a certificate has been authorized by a certificate authority which authenticates the person's identity. Once authenticated, a digital certificate is digitally signed by the certificate authority. The digital certificate attaches a unique public key to the identity of the certificate holder. The public key is one half of a uniquely matched key pair. The other key is a private key. While the public key is made available to the public, the private key is kept confidential.Each key can encrypt and decrypt data. Information encrypted by one key can only be decrypted by its matched counterpart in the key pair. Thus, in order to ensure that only the intended recipient has access to the transmitted message, the sender encrypts the message using the recipient's public key. The recipient then decrypts the message using the matched recipient private key. Similarly, in order to ensure that the message originated from the claimed sender, the sender signs the message by encrypting it with the sender's private key. The recipient verifies the identity of the sender by decrypting the message with the sender's public key.

What is SSL?
Secure Socket Layers or SSL is the protocol use to support client and server authentication. Developed by Netscape Communications, SSL provides a high level of security that is independent of higher levels of transportation protocols like HTTP, FTP, Telnet, etc·. This technology uses server and client certificates to encrypt communications between the server and client that creates a virtual pipeline of information that is extremely difficult for others to interpret. This process is broken down into two steps. First, the server sends its certificate to the client at the client's request. The client then encrypts a message with the server's certificate and transmits this information to the server. If the server can decrypt this message with its private key and send back the appropriate response then the client knows that the server authenticity is valid. If not, then the client can choose whether or not communication should continue. The second step is an optional procedure to authenticate the client to the server. This process occurs similarly to the server authentication.